NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - 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 votesLoading...#3 - 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
NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Sofas
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 2/18/2024
How HSL make more than 5,000 sofas every year in West Yorkshire. The science of light bulbs, to create the perfect environment to snuggle up on the sofa. How foam padding is produced. The history of the sofa. One of the world's most famous sewing machines.
Director: Duncan Thompson
Writer: N/A
6.3/1018 votesLoading...#5 - Bicycles
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 8/16/2016
Gregg Wallace visits Britain's largest bicycle factory, which produces 150 folding bikes every day, and joins a production line to make his own bike.
Director: Chris Parkin
Writer: N/A
6.9/1013 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.0/1018 votesLoading...#7 - Soup
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 4/21/2020
How a factory in Wigan produces two million tins of soup a day. Vegetable soup is followed from a pea harvest in Yorkshire right through to the finished soup going into cans and being dispatched. How the vitamin content of frozen vegetables can greatly exceed that of fresh. How a spinach soup based on a 17th-century recipe doesn't much resemble soup as we know it today. The history of the soup kitchen.
Director: Sam Bailey
Writer: N/A
7.0/1011 votesLoading...#8 - 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
7.1/1012 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.2/1016 votesLoading...#10 - 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
7.2/1013 votesLoading...#11 - Yorkshire Puddings
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 12/27/2023
How Aunt Bessie's produce a staggering 500 million Yorkshire puddings every year in Hull. How wheat is tested before it can be milled into flour. How to cook the perfect gravy for a Sunday roast. The history of the roast dinner, and the art of washing up Tudor-style.
Director: Duncan Thompson
Writer: N/A
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#12 - Baked Beans
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 8/9/2016
Gregg Wallace helps to unload 27 tonnes of dried haricot beans and follows them on a journey through the world's largest baked bean factory.
Director: Chris Parkin
Writer: N/A
7.3/1012 votesLoading...#13 - 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
7.3/1014 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.3/1010 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.4/1010 votesLoading...#16 - 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
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#17 - Crisps
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 8/2/2016
Gregg Wallace follows 27 tonnes of potatoes from a farm in Hampshire through the largest crisp factory on earth.
Director: Chris Parkin
Writer: N/A
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#18 - Shoes
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 8/30/2016
Gregg Wallace visits the UK's largest sports shoe factory to see how they produce 3,500 pairs of trainers every day.
Director: Chris Parkin
Writer: N/A
7.5/1019 votesLoading...#19 - Sauces
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/9/2018
Ruth Goodman investigates the origin of Worcestershire sauce, as told by Mr Lea and Mr Perrins.
Director: Sam Bailey, Michael Rees, Will Aspinall
Writer: N/A
7.5/1018 votesLoading...#20 - Liqueurs
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 4/28/2020
How a factory in Ireland produces 540,000 bottles of liqueurs a day. From grain, to barrel aging, to mixing cream and whiskey together, the show traces the production of a cream liqueur over the span of three years. How Ireland’s bottles and jars are recycled at a plant processing 500 tonnes every day. How all alcoholic drinks - not just aperitifs - stimulate appetite. The rules for producing and labelling whiskey, bourbon, and blends. How monks invented liqueurs. The impact of modern distillation methods on traditionally made alcohols like Irish whiskey.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1015 votesLoading...#21 - Cider
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 12/27/2020
How the world's biggest cider producer makes more than 350 million litres each year - from orchards in Herefordshire, to the mill in Ledbury, to fermentation and bottling at the factory. How grafting is used to create a new sweet apple variety called Scrumptious. How a by-product of making cider - CO2 - is used to make fire extinguishers. The history of the Victorian apple-breeding boom, and recreating one of Queen Victoria's favourite baked apple desserts.
Director: Gavin Ahern
Writer: N/A
7.5/1012 votesLoading...#22 - Jelly Beans
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/2024
How Jelly Bean Factory make ten million of their colourful little sweets every day in Dublin. The important role glucose plays in our bodies. How one of the ingredients in jelly beans plays a key role in the production of lipstick. The history of jelly and post-war pick'n'mix.
Director: Duncan Thompson
Writer: N/A
7.5/108 votesLoading...#23 - Stuffed Pasta
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 1/16/2024
How Dell Ugo make 500 million stuffed pasta parcels every year in Hertfordshire. How Cromer on the Norfolk coast still use traditional fishing techniques to catch the crab for stuffed pasta. How Italian immigrants in Bedford helped to build Britain. The origins of gluten-free food.
Director: Duncan Thompson
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Sweets
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 8/23/2016
Gregg Wallace helps to unload a tanker full of sugar from Norfolk and follows it through one of the oldest sweet factories in Britain.
Director: Chris Parkin
Writer: N/A
7.6/1020 votesLoading...#25 - Cereal Bars
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 5/5/2020
How a factory in Essex produces 400,000 cereal bars a day - from nuts to cranberries and sultanas to puffed rice, with a carefully balanced blend of honey and glucose binding it all together for the ideal texture. How macadamia nuts are harvested in South Africa, and shelled under extraordinary pressure. The scientific distinction between botanical nuts, legumes and drupes. The history of Britain's cereal bars, including one Kendal Mint Cake snack bar made popular by famous explorers Ernest Shackleton and Sir Edmund Hillary.
Director: Sam Bailey, Steve Bonser
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Inside the Factory
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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
Worst Episodes Summary
"Ice Cream" is the worst rated episode of "Inside the Factory". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Gavin Ahern and written by N/A, it aired on 2/9/2022. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Rice Pudding".