7.2/1016 votes#1 - Christmas Cards
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 12/22/2021
How Woodmansterne produces 35 million greeting cards a year in Watford - from sketching a card design, to creating an aluminium plate for printing, to guillotining the sheets into cards and the final shipping process. Creating a vegan Christmas feast. The history of the year Christmas was cancelled.
Director: Duncan Thompson
Writer: N/A
6.9/1013 votes#2 - Diggers
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 12/29/2021
How JCB make as many as a hundred iconic yellow diggers every single day in Rocester, Staffordshire, requiring just 45 hours to make a digger from scratch, and consuming 650 tonnes of steel, 170,000 bolts, 5,000 litres of paint and 236 miles of wiring each week.
Director: Michael Rees
Writer: N/A
7.3/1012 votes#3 - Malt Loaf
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 1/5/2022
How the largest malt loaf factory in the world makes the sweet and squidgy cake-cum-bread, a popular teatime treat consumed at the rate of 130 million a year. How a British baking company cooked up the first business computer. How wheat flour was ground the traditional way, until the Victorians' demand for white bread brought about the demise of Britain's iconic windmills.
Director: Matthew Skilton
Writer: N/A
7.6/1011 votes#4 - Chairs
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 1/12/2022
Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair. Cherry Healey investigates how sitting too much could be very bad for our health. Historian Ruth Goodman discovers how utility furniture made during the Blitz is still influencing the designs we buy today.
Director: Gavin Ahern
Writer: N/A
7.1/1012 votes#5 - Leather Boots
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 1/19/2022
Gregg Wallace visits a bootmaking factory in Wollaston, Northamptonshire to follow the production of a pair of Dr. Martens, while Cherry Healey gets to grips with the machines that make shoelaces.
Director: Gavin Ahern
Writer: N/A
8.0/108 votes#6 - Tortilla Chips
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 1/26/2022
How the biggest tortilla factory in Europe makes 60,000 tonnes of snacks every year in Coventry, including their UK bestseller: chilli heatwave flavour tortilla chips. Tasting the hottest chilli in the world at the UK's largest chilli farm. The science behind the UK's first compostable crisp packet. How the Elizabethans kept their huge ruff collars standing to attention, and how American popcorn became a box office smash.
Director: Gavin Ahern
Writer: N/A
7.7/1010 votes#7 - Mugs
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 2/2/2022
How Denby - potterymaker since 1809 - produces one of their best sellers, the Halo Heritage mug, in Derbyshire. The journey starts at the factory's 100-metre-long, 100,000-tonne mound of clay.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#8 - Ice Cream
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 2/9/2022
How a family-run factory in rural Aberdeenshire churns out fifty thousand litres of dairy ice cream every day. How best to stop 'brain freeze.' How sprinkles are made. How ice cream vans made soft whip a favourite on Britain's streets.
Director: Gavin Ahern
Writer: N/A
7.3/1014 votes#9 - Vacuums
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 2/16/2022
How a 32-acre site in Somerset makes 1.2 million Henry vacuum cleaners every year.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/1011 votes#10 - Trains
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 8/1/2022
How Alstom builds a 187-tonne, five-carriage electric train on their 84-acre site in Derby. How the train's aluminium is made at the UK's last remaining smelter in Scotland. How tunnel boring machines are digging ten miles through the hills for the new HS2 line. The history of the UK’s first electric train - Brighton's seafront tourist train, still used today - and how that technology went on to be used in underground transportation all over the world.
Director: Michael Rees
Writer: N/A
7.3/1010 votes#11 - Buses
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 8/8/2022
How London's famous red double-decker bus - including a fully electric model - is built in Scarborough, Yorkshire, highlighting the tough laminated heated windscreens and bright red coat of paint. How the turbines at an offshore wind farm convert wind into watts. The history of London's earliest double-deckers and their vital role in the First World War.
Director: Michael Rees
Writer: N/A
8.1/108 votes#12 - Jaffa Cakes
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 4/4/2023
How a factory in Manchester churns out 6 million Jaffa Cakes every single day - 1.4 billion per year. The legal significance of whether Jaffa Cakes are cakes or biscuits.
Director: Duncan Thompson
Writer: N/A
8.5/107 votes#13 - Pork Pies
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 4/11/2023
How Vale of Mowbray make pork pies - including 425,000 a week of their 75g snack-sized traditional pie - in Northallerton, Yorkshire. Hacks for the perfect vegan shortcrust pastry. How piccalilli, a pork pie accompaniment, is made. The history of Britain's unusual stargazy pie, and powdered egg during the Second World War.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/108 votes#14 - Crumpets
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 4/18/2023
How a factory makes 432 million classic British crumpets every year from a precise combination of ingredients, using some clever chemistry to create their famous 'holey' texture. The science of making the perfect pancake batter. How another British favourite, Eccles cakes, are made in Manchester for shipment all over the world. The history of how crumpets got their rise and eventually their bubbles, and Britain's obsession with toasting baked goods.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/106 votes#15 - Vegan Sausages
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 4/25/2023
The futuristic process by which Heck churn out up to 90,000 vegan sausages a day in Yorkshire. How Canadian soy beans are transformed into protein-packed tofu. How a vegan superfood of the sea is harvested on the Scottish coast. The history of the vegetarian movement in Britain, and the high price that British sailors paid when deprived of their five a day.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#16 - Rice Pudding
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 5/2/2023
Gregg Wallace explores the Ambrosia factory in Lifton, Devon, to reveal how it makes up to 360,000 rice puddings every single day. How fresh water from the Alps is used to grow more than a million tonnes of rice every year in Italy's Po Valley. The history of school dinners.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
NaN/100 votes#17 - Mints
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 5/9/2023
How Polos produce 32 million mints every day in York - part of the 19,000 tonnes of mints consumed every year in the UK. The largest sugar beet factory in Europe. How one of the last surviving peppermint farms in the UK harvest their crop. How clever marketing persuaded people to buy minty mouthwash.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Inside the Factory Season 7
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Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind production on an epic...
Genre:Documentary
Network:BBC Two
Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Christmas Cards" is the best rated episode of "Inside the Factory" season 7. It scored 7.2/10 based on 16 votes. Directed by Duncan Thompson and written by N/A, it aired on 12/22/2021. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Diggers".