Inside the Factory

Gregg Wallace explores Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire factory, crafting 500 million Yorkshire puddings yearly. Cherry Healey learns gravy-making secrets and invites her mom to taste. Ruth Goodman revives Tudor cleaning methods for eco-friendly pot care.

Host Gregg Wallce travels to Dublin, Ireland and discovers the complicated, step by step process to create a jelly bean. Cherry discovers the link between jelly beans and lipstick. Ruth finds out why serving jelly was once a status symbol.

Gregg Wallace travels from a denim mill in Italy to an artisan factory in Wales and sees how jeans are made. Cherry Healey finds an environmentally friendly way to give new jeans a broken in look. Ruth Goodman learns the origins of denim work wear.

Gregg Wallace visits a family run business that's been making pasta for four generations and follows the production of one of the factory's best selling stuffed pastas, their Crab and Crayfish Raviolo.Cherry visits a fisherman and seafood processing plant

Gregg visits the Guinness brewery in Dublin to see how they combine their centuries old brewing tradition with cutting edge technology. Cherry helps with a spring hops harvest and Ruth learns the link between espionage and pub games.

Gregg visits the Lush factory to learn how their fragrant, fizzy bath bombs are made. Cherry sees how a hot bath can have some of the benefits of exercise and learns how science is finding more ethical ways to test skin care products.

Gregg Wallace visits the Axminster Carpets factory to see how the company's finely crafted carpets are made. Cherry Healey learns how raw wool becomes dyed yarn. Ruth Goodman unfurls the history of British carpet making.

Gregg visits the Nestle factory in York, England to learn how their Aero peppermint bar is made. Cherry learns how color that is added to food and drink can be created using only plants. Ruth learns the bitter history of hot chocolate.

Gregg follows the complex process as a sofa is made at the HSL factory in West Yorkshire. Cherry learns how foam for seating is produced. Ruth reveals the Scottish roots of the sewing machine.

Gregg sees how the Farrow and Ball factory creates their classic paints and wallpaper by combining traditional handcrafted techniques and modern machinery. Cherry learns how to hang wallpaper. Ruth learns about painted warships.