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Inside the Factory Season 7 Episodes
Season 7 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 2021 - 2023
Episode 0
Christmas Cards
59 mins
In this festive edition, Gregg visits the Woodmansterne card factory in Watford, one of the largest greeting card companies in the UK. Cherry creates a vegan Christmas feast and Ruth unwraps the story of the year Christmas was cancelled.
Episode 1
XL: Diggers
59 mins
In the first episode of this supersized series, Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get special access to a factory that makes as many as a hundred iconic yellow diggers every single day.
Episode 2
Malt Loaf
59 mins
Gregg Wallace visits the largest malt loaf factory in the world, encountering a production line of massive dough mixing, mind-boggling tin filling and intensely hot baking.
Episode 3
Chairs
59 mins
Gregg visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to see production of a Windsor chair. Cherry looks at how sitting too much could be bad for our health. Ruth learns how furniture made during The Blitz still influences today's designs.
Episode 4
Leather Boots
59 mins
Gregg Wallace visits a boot 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.
Episode 5
Tortilla Chips
59 mins
Gregg Wallace visits the biggest tortilla factory in Europe, while Cherry Healey takes on the hottest chilli in the world and Ruth Goodman reveals how the Elizabethans treated their ruff collars.
Episode 6
Mugs
59 mins
Gregg Wallace visits the Denby factory in Derbyshire, which has been making pottery since 1809. We Brits drink a staggering 195 million mugs of tea and coffee every day, so Gregg is following production of one of the factory's best sellers, the Halo Heritage mug. Every cup and pot in this historic factory starts life as a giant 100 metre-long mound of clay. Operations director Dean Barlow explains there are 100,000 tons of clay in this enormous pile, enough to last the factory about 20 years.
Episode 7
Ice Cream
59 mins
Gregg Wallace visits a family-run factory in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire, which churns out more than 49 tonnes of dairy ice cream every day. Gregg is delighted to learn he's following the entire production of their one-litre tub of honeycomb flavour. Cherry Healey heads to an ice rink in Hull with headache expert Dr Fayyaz Ahmed and enlists an ice hockey team to test the best methods of stopping brain freeze. She also goes in search of a non-drip ice lolly and follows the tip-top process of how sprinkles are made. Meanwhile, historian Ruth Goodman hops on board an ice cream van to find out how soft whip became a favourite on Britain's streets.
Episode 8
Vacuums
59 mins
Gregg Wallace visits a huge vacuum cleaner factory in the heart of Somerset. This 32-acre site is a hive of activity where 1.2 million vacuums are made every year. Gregg is following their biggest seller, the Henry vacuum cleaner in bright red.
Episode 9
XL: Trains
60 mins
When he was a child, Gregg loved playing with toy train-sets. Now he's got special access to learn how the ultimate model is made: a huge 187-tonne, five-carriage electric train. At the 84-acre Alstom factory site in Derby, each one takes up to a thousand hours to complete. Gregg follows every step of the process, from the delivery of vast lengths of aluminum and a 15,000-degree welding operation to the carriages' assembly with a set of enormous cranes. He learns about such parts of the train's design as the dead man's pedal and the importance of electrification - all before getting to drive the newly finished train himself. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey travels to Scotland to visit the UK's last remaining factory that produces aluminum via smelting. She also visits an HS2 construction site to learn how two huge tunnel boring machines are digging ten miles through the hills. Historian Ruth Goodman is energized by the history of electric trains as she learns that the UK's first was a tourist train that is still in use along the Brighton seafront. The technology pioneered in the seaside town went on to be used in underground transportation all over the world.
Episode 10
XL: Buses
60 mins
The red double-decker bus is a global icon. They carry millions of passengers every day across the capital and are as synonymous with London as Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace. Now, Gregg Wallace has special access to a factory in Scarborough, Yorkshire where they build this famous people mover. But the bus that Gregg is helping to produce is a little bit special, because it's fully electric. Gregg helps the factory across all stages of the bus's construction, including operating a crane to lower the bus's steps in place, adding the anti-slip lino, riveting and gluing the walls and wiring the electrics - before taking on the nerve-wracking task of driving the finished bus out of the factory. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory where she gets to grips with the construction of tough laminated heated windscreens. And in the main bus factory, she helps to give the bus its bright red coat of paint. She also visits an offshore wind-farm to learn how turbines convert wind into watts that could one day power the electric buses. Historian Ruth Goodman learns about London's earliest double-deckers and the vital role they played in the First World War.
Episode 11
Jaffa Cakes
60 mins
Gregg Wallace sees the production of Jaffa Cakes, while Cherry Healey goes to Jaffa, Israel, the region that lends its name to the Jaffa orange.
Episode 12
Pork Pies
60 mins
Gregg Wallace explores the Vale of Mowbray pork pie factory in Northallerton, Yorkshire, which began making pork pies in 1928. He visited the factory in May 2022, following production of their 75g snack-sized traditional pork pie.
Episode 13
Crumpets
60 mins
Gregg Wallace visits the factory making 432 million crumpets every year. Crumpets are a British classic made from a precise combination of ingredients, using some clever chemistry to create their famous 'holey' texture.
Episode 14
Vegan Sausages
60 mins
Gregg Wallace visits a Yorkshire team that churn out up to 90,000 vegan sausages a day. Heck have been making these bangers since 2018, and the process is surprisingly futuristic.
Episode 15
Rice Pudding
60 mins
Gregg Wallace explores the Ambrosia factory in Lifton, Devon, to reveal how it makes up to 360,000 rice puddings every single day.
Episode 16
Mints
60 mins
Gregg visits the Polo mint factory in York, Cherry gets a tour of the biggest sugar beet factory in Europe.
