Name: Inside the Factory
Released: 2015-05-05T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Gregg Wallace, Cherry Healey, Ruth Goodman

TV Show · Documentary · Holiday

Snoop around supersize production lines across Britain to learn the secrets of our favourite staples, snacks, and home goods. Join hosts Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey for a delicious peek into the history and technology behind these everyday items.

2015 · 58m

Starring Gregg Wallace, Cherry Healey, Ruth Goodman

EPISODE 1

Tea Bags

Gregg Wallace receives a load of tea leaves from Kenya and follows their journey through the factory that produces one quarter of all the tea drunk in Britain.
EPISODE 2

Pasta

Gregg Wallace is in Italy, hitching a lift on a train carrying over a thousand tons of wheat to the largest dried pasta factory in the world.
EPISODE 3

Biscuits

In London, Gregg visits Europe's largest biscuit factory, where 80 million biscuits are produced each day; he witnesses the production of chocolate digestives from the arrival of the flour to the dispatch of the final product.
EPISODE 4

Fish Fingers

Gregg Wallace uncovers the mysteries behind fish fingers and their production, including a factory that processes 80,000 cod fish fingers a day.
EPISODE 5

Sauces

Gregg Wallace is at one of the world's biggest sauce factories, located in the Netherlands; its annual output is a quarter of a million tons of condiments; in the meantime, Cherry Healey is making the glass jars Gregg needs for his mayonnaise.
EPISODE 6

Soft Drinks

Gregg Wallace explores Ribena's Gloucestershire factory, which turns 90 percent of Britain's blackcurrants into soft drinks, producing 3 million bottles a week; Cherry Healey is harvesting the berries in Kent.