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Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind production on an epic scale.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 17 - Mints
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Mints

    S7:E17

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Inside the Factory Season 2 Episode 4 - Bicycles
    6.6/10(27 votes)

    #2 - Bicycles

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown

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  3. Inside the Factory Season 2 Episode 6 - Shoes
    6.9/10(27 votes)

    #3 - Shoes

    S2:E6

    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:Unknown

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  4. Inside the Factory Season 9 Episode 2 - Sliced Bread
    7.1/10(19 votes)

    #4 - Sliced Bread

    S9:E2

    Paddy McGuinness makes a wonderfully nostalgic trip to the Warburtons factory in his hometown of Bolton where, thirty years ago, he had a Saturday job cleaning the machines. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey discovers how waste bread is turned into beer, and historian Ruth Goodman reveals why white bread was banned during World War Two.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 2 - Diggers
    7.2/10(23 votes)

    #5 - Diggers

    S7:E2

    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:Unknown

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  6. Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 9 - Vacuums
    7.2/10(22 votes)

    #6 - Vacuums

    S7:E9

    How a 32-acre site in Somerset makes 1.2 million Henry vacuum cleaners every year.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Inside the Factory Season 8 Episode 10 - Paint and Wallpaper
    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #7 - Paint and Wallpaper

    S8:E10

    How Farrow & Ball produce up to 200,000 litres of paint and 10,000 metres of wallpaper a week in Dorset. How a key ingredient in paint-making is mined in Devon. The art of hanging wallpaper, and its history. How ships in the First World War were painted with dazzling patterns to evade German submarines.

    Director:Duncan Thompson
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Inside the Factory Season 10 Episode 1 - Gingerbread
    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #8 - Gingerbread

    S10:E1

    Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey are in the festive spirit as they join factory workers in Market Drayton producing gingerbread Santa and reindeer biscuits for Christmas.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 1 - Christmas Cards
    7.3/10(24 votes)

    #9 - Christmas Cards

    S7:E1

    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:Unknown

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  10. Inside the Factory Season 8 Episode 7 - Carpets
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    #10 - Carpets

    S8:E7

    How Axminster produces 46,000 square metres of carpet every year in Devon. The science behind the best ways to remove stubborn stains from carpets such as butter, milk and red wine. How the groundbreaking methods of a Devon-based carpet maker in the 18th century revolutionised intricate carpet making. The rise and fall of the hard-wearing flooring linoleum.

    Director:Duncan Thompson
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Inside the Factory Season 9 Episode 1 - Chocolate Seashells
    7.3/10(19 votes)

    #11 - Chocolate Seashells

    S9:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Inside the Factory Season 5 Episode 7 - Soup
    7.4/10(28 votes)

    #12 - Soup

    S5:E7

    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:Unknown

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  13. Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 8 - Ice Cream
    7.4/10(14 votes)

    #13 - Ice Cream

    S7:E8

    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:Unknown

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  14. Inside the Factory Season 10 Episode 6 - Lawnmowers
    7.4/10(9 votes)

    #14 - Lawnmowers

    S10:E6

    Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey enjoy a summertime visit to a factory in Hertfordshire that produces 15,000 lawnmowers every year.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Inside the Factory Season 2 Episode 3 - Baked Beans
    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #15 - Baked Beans

    S2:E3

    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:Unknown

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  16. Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 5 - Leather Boots
    7.5/10(24 votes)

    #16 - Leather Boots

    S7:E5

    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:Unknown

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  17. Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 10 - Trains
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #17 - Trains

    S7:E10

    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:Unknown

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  18. Inside the Factory Season 8 Episode 1 - Yorkshire Puddings
    7.5/10(22 votes)

    #18 - Yorkshire Puddings

    S8:E1

    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:Unknown

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  19. Inside the Factory Season 8 Episode 3 - Jeans
    7.5/10(17 votes)

    #19 - Jeans

    S8:E3

    How denim cloth is made, and how Welsh jeans brand Hiut transform it into one of the world's most popular items of clothing - jeans. How zippers are made. How denim is distressed to make a new pair of jeans look old, in environmentally friendly ways. The little-known person who helped shape the design of jeans forever. The history of indigo dye.

    Director:Duncan Thompson
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Inside the Factory Season 8 Episode 9 - Sofas
    7.5/10(12 votes)

    #20 - Sofas

    S8:E9

    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:Unknown

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  21. Inside the Factory Season 2 Episode 5 - Sweets
    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #21 - Sweets

    S2:E5

    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:Unknown

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  22. Inside the Factory Season 5 Episode 4 - Mattresses
    7.6/10(29 votes)

    #22 - Mattresses

    S5:E4

    How a factory in Leeds produces 600 bouncy beds every day - from making steel into springs, to their placement in individual pockets and covering in natural fibres like hemp and wool designed to wick away sweat. How a short, twenty-minute sleep improves reaction times. How wool is shorn from sheep, and its inherent anti-bacterial and fire-retardant properties that make it well suited to mattresses. How the modern spring mattress evolved. How a famous Scandinavian-inspired home store is responsible for popularizing the duvet.

    Director:Steve Bonser
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Inside the Factory Season 5 Episode 8 - Liqueurs
    7.6/10(27 votes)

    #23 - Liqueurs

    S5:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 3 - Malt Loaf
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    #24 - Malt Loaf

    S7:E3

    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:Unknown

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  25. Inside the Factory Season 7 Episode 11 - Buses
    7.6/10(20 votes)

    #25 - Buses

    S7:E11

    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:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Mints" is the worst rated episode of "Inside the Factory". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/9/2023. This episode scored 6.6 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Bicycles".