Inside the Factory
Inside the Factory is a documentary on BBC2. Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey hit factory floors across Britain for a snoop around their supersized production lines. What are the secrets behind our supermarket staples? The program has been available since 2024. A total of 10 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in February 2025.
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Paddy McGuinness visits a factory in Northern Ireland producing sausage rolls on an epic scale.
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Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a factory that produces three million books every week and makes 20,000 hardback copies of Pride and Prejudice.
Paddy McGuinness enjoys a lot of taste tests when he visits a factory in London to learn how they produce sticky toffee flapjacks on an epic scale.
Paddy McGuinness visits a factory to explore the surprising process of turning potato starch into 500 million packs of Quavers cheese curls every year.
New presenter Paddy McGuinness makes a nostalgic visit to the Warburtons bread factory in his hometown of Bolton, where he had a Saturday job more than 30 years ago.
In this Christmas special, new presenter Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a chocolate factory in Belgium that produces four million chocolate seashells every day.
Series 8
Gregg Wallace visits a huge carpet factory in Devon to learn how it weaves 46,000 square metres of carpet every year.
Gregg Wallace visits the colourful and fragrant Lush factory in Dorset to learn how an astonishing 14 million bath bombs are produced every year.
Gregg Wallace visits a huge brewery in Dublin to learn how two million litres of an iconic Irish stout are produced every day.
Gregg Wallace visits a food factory in Hertfordshire that produces 500 million parcels of stuffed pasta every year.