Inside the Factory

A visit to a tea factory near Liverpool and a processing plant in Kenya reveals the secrets of turning tea leaves into millions of tea bags every 24 hours.

A visit to Barilla's dried pasta factory in Italy reveals the machines and people who churn out a thousand tons of pasta every 24 hours.

A visit to Europe's largest biscuit factory, McVitie's, shows how they mass produce over 80 million biscuits every day.

A visit to Caistor Seafood's factory in Lincolnshire reveals how tons of freshly caught cod are transformed into 80,000 frozen fish fingers every day.

Our hosts visit the Heinz factory in the Netherlands to discover the technology and workforce required to produce 750,000 jars of mayonnaise every day.

A visit to the Ribena factory in Gloucestershire details how it mass-produces its popular blackcurrant soft drink at a rate of three million bottles a week