NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - 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.
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NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Chocolate Seashells
Season 9 Episode 1 - Aired 12/22/2024
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. Cherry Healey is also in Belgium, learning the secrets of white chocolate production at the biggest chocolate factory in the world, and Ruth Goodman is in a city with a familiar-sounding name, Saint Niklas, exploring the European origins of Santa.
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6.5/1020 votesLoading...#3 - 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
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#4 - 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
7.1/1015 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.3/1020 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.3/1015 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.3/107 votesLoading...#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
7.4/1018 votesLoading...#9 - 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
- 7.5/1028 votesLoading...
#10 - 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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#11 - 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
7.5/1014 votesLoading...#12 - 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
7.5/1016 votesLoading...#13 - 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.
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7.5/1014 votesLoading...#14 - 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
7.5/107 votesLoading...#15 - 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.
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7.5/1014 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.6/1012 votesLoading...#17 - 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
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#18 - 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
7.7/1022 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: Will Aspinall, Sam Bailey, Michael Rees
Writer: N/A
7.7/1020 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.
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7.7/1022 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.7/1017 votesLoading...#22 - 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
7.7/1019 votesLoading...#23 - Yoghurt
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 1/12/2021
How one million pots of yoghurt are produced every 24 hours in rural Somerset - from the Friesian cows that provide the milk to the processing, culturing, and packing processes. How blackcurrant are harvested. Plant-based alternatives to milk. Food-safe yoghurt pots made from 100% recycled material. The history of the electric milk float and the contentious origins of the cream tea.
Director: Gavin Ahern
Writer: N/A
7.8/1029 votesLoading...#24 - Chocolate
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/6/2015
Gregg 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.
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7.8/1012 votesLoading...#25 - 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
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
"Mints" is the worst rated episode of "Inside the Factory". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/9/2023. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Chocolate Seashells".