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Inside the Factory Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2018 - 2019
Episode 1
Coffee
60 mins
Gregg visits the Nescafe freeze-dried factory in Derbyshire where they make 175,000 jars of instant coffee every day. Cherry studies how roasting affects the flavour. Ruth discovers how coffee led to the founding of the Stock Exchange.
Episode 2
Toilet Roll
60 mins
Gregg Wallace explores the factory that makes 700,000 toilet rolls a day and Cherry Healey gets the bum deal of following a flush through the sewers.
Episode 3
Sausages
48 mins
Gregg Wallace explores a factory that produces 625,000 sausages a day and Cherry Healey gets the scientific lowdown on getting the best banger.
Episode 4
Curry
60 mins
Gregg Wallace explores the Nottinghamshire factory that makes 250,000 jars of curry sauce each day. Meanwhile Cherry Healey is in Guntur, the chilli capital of India, where they sell 3,500 tonnes of chilli each day.
Episode 5
Inside the Christmas Factory
59 mins
Gregg Wallace visits a factory which produces a staggering 2,000,000 tins of festive chocolate assortments a year. Cherry Healey travels to Germany where she joins a crew of ornament decorators, applying glitter and paint to glass Santas. In the UK, she goes behind the scenes at the Royal Mail as the Christmas stamps are printed. She also learns some skills for perfecting gingerbread whilst produces a gingerbread factory complete with biscuit versions of her co-presenters. Historian Ruth Goodman is on the trail of the Christmas turkey. She also comes face to face with the precursor to the pantomime dame - an 18th-century clown.
Episode 6
Potato Waffles
59 mins
Gregg visits a factory in Lowestoft that produces 450 tonnes of frozen food each day. Cherry learns the difference between potato types. Ruth myth busts Walter Raleigh's connection to potatoes.
Episode 7
Frozen Pizza
59 mins
Gregg visits a huge pizza factory in Italy that produces 400,000 frozen pizza a day. Cherry asks if mozzarella is the best cheese to top a pizza and sees pepperoni being made. Ruth investigates the history of the freezer.
Episode 8
Beer
59 mins
Gregg is in Burton upon Trent at Britain's biggest brewery. Cherry learns how 4 basic ingredients can be used to make such a wide range of beers. Ruth asks why Burton became the centre of British brewing.
Episode 9
Pencils
60 mins
Gregg Wallace is in Germany at a historic pencil factory where they produce 600,000 writing implements a day.
Episode 10
Cheese
59 mins
Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the biggest factories in Britain and Europe to follow the relentless production lines making our favourite products.
