Inside the Factory
Inside the Factory is a documentary on BBC2. Gregg Wallace 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 44 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in November 2024.
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Inside the Factory
Gregg Wallace visits a huge carpet factory in Devon to learn how it weaves 46,000 square metres of carpet every year.
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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.
Gregg Wallace visits two factories in Italy and Wales to learn how denim cloth is made and then transformed into one of the world's most popular items of clothing - jeans.
Gregg Wallace visits a jelly beans factory in Dublin to reveal the astonishing processes used to make ten million of these colourful little sweets every day.
Gregg Wallace accesses huge factories that use extraordinary engineering processes to make our most iconic vehicle.
Series 5
Gregg Wallace is in France at an enormous foundry that produces a cast iron pot every five seconds.
Series 6 55:00
55:00Gregg Wallace visits a huge vacuum cleaner factory in the heart of Somerset and follows the production of their biggest seller - the Henry vacuum cleaner in bright red.
1:00:00Gregg Wallace visits a factory that churns out 50,000 litres of dairy ice cream a day, and Cherry Healey enlists an ice hockey team to test methods for stopping brain freeze.
50:00Gregg Wallace visits the Denby factory in Derbyshire - which has been making pottery since 1809 - to follow production of the Halo Heritage mug, one of the factory's best-sellers.
1:00:00Gregg Wallace visits the biggest tortilla factory in Europe, Cherry Healey takes on the hottest chilli in the world, and Ruth Goodman explores Elizabethan ruff collars.
50:00Gregg Wallace visits a boot factory in Northamptonshire to follow the production of a pair of Doc Martens.
1:00:00Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair.
Gregg visits a factory that churns out 32 million mints per day. Cherry Healey visits the largest sugar beet factory in Europe, and Ruth Goodman explores minty mouthwash marketing.
Series 6 50:00
50:00Gregg Wallace visits the largest malt loaf factory in the world and encounters a production line.
Series 1 1:00:00
1:00:00Documentary series. Gregg Wallace, Cherry Healey and Ruth Goodman look at Britain's history with milk and visit one of the largest fresh milk processing plants on earth.
50:00Gregg Wallace, Cherry Healey and Ruth Goodman look at Britain's love of chocolate and visit one of the world's largest chocolate factories in York.
Series 3 50:00
50:00Documentary series. Gregg Wallace explores Ribena's Gloucestershire factory, and Cherry Healey is in a laboratory to figure out why fizzy drinks are so appealing.
1:00:00Documentary series. Gregg Wallace is in the Netherlands at one of the world's biggest sauce factories, and Ruth Goodman investigates the origin of Worcestershire sauce.