Discover the innovation, skill and technology behind your favourite foods and everyday goods. Historian Ruth Goodman explores how iconic products were invented and why they endured, while Cherry Healey investigates the science behind popular items such as gingerbread, Jammie Dodgers, lawnmowers and oven chips.
Cast: Lucy Carter, Michael Rees, Sanjay Singhal
Episode 1Paddy McGuinness visits a factory that makes 4 million Belgian chocolates every day.
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Episode 2Paddy McGuinness is at the Warburtons factory where he worked as a teenager.
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Episode 3Paddy McGuinness is at a factory that makes 500 million packs of Quavers a year.
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Episode 4Paddy McGuinness visits a factory producing 40 million flapjacks a year.
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Episode 5Paddy and Cherry visit a factory producing half a million sausage rolls a day.
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Episode 6Paddy and Cherry visit a factory that produces three million books every week.
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Episode 1Paddy McGuinness goes inside the south Wales Jammie Dodgers factory, following the high-speed process that produces billions of biscuits a year, from mixing and baking to adding jam and packing.
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Episode 2Paddy McGuinness goes inside McCain's Scarborough factory to follow how potatoes are turned into 80 million frozen chips a day, from delivery and cutting to frying, freezing and packing.
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Episode 3Paddy McGuinness visits Hayter's Hertfordshire factory to see how 15,000 lawnmowers a year are made, following the assembly of the Harrier 56 petrol mower at the historic site.
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Episode 4Paddy McGuinness visits Kellogg's vast Wrexham factory to uncover how 120 million boxes of cereal are made each year, revealing the high-speed process behind Special K production.
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Episode 5Paddy McGuinness visits a Nottingham medicine factory producing 230 million tablets and lozenges a week, uncovering how mass-manufactured remedies help fight colds and flu.
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Episode 6Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit a Shropshire factory making 100,000 gingerbread figures a week, following the festive process from mixing and baking to icing, packing and Christmas delivery.
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