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 2025. A total of 10 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in September 2026.
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Inside the Factory
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.
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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.
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey enjoy a summertime visit to a factory in Hertfordshire that produces 15,000 lawnmowers every year.
Paddy McGuinness visits a huge factory in north Wales that churns out an incredible 120 million boxes of breakfast cereal a year.
Paddy McGuinness visits a medicine factory in Nottingham that’s helping to tackle the nation’s colds and flu, producing 230 million tablets and lozenges every single week.
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a factory near Scarborough that produces an incredible 80 million chips every single day.
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a factory in south Wales that produces a whopping 4.4 billion biscuits a year.
Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey are in the festive spirit as they join factory workers in Market Drayton producing gingerbread Santa and reindeer biscuits for Christmas.
Series 9
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.