Inside the Factory: Series 4
Inside the Factory is a British television series produced by Voltage TV for the BBC. The series features Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey, although in season 4, Paddy McGuinness joins Cherry Healey. The program provides exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain, revealing the secrets behind various products. The series is a documentary that showcases the inner workings of these factories.
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey visit some of the biggest factories in the UK.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Season overview
Inside the Factory is a British television series produced by Voltage TV for the BBC. The series features Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey, although in season 4, Paddy McGuinness joins Cherry Healey. The program provides exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain, revealing the secrets behind various products. The series is a documentary that showcases the inner workings of these factories.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Coffee
Jul 17, 2018 · 59 min
How a factory in Derbyshire produces 175,000 jars of instant coffee every day, from green coffee beans to the freeze-dried final product. How roasting alters the chemical compositi
Toilet Roll
Jul 24, 2018 · 59 min
How a factory in Manchester produces 700,000 toilet rolls a day starting with spruce timber offcuts from Sweden, pulped and rolled onto 1.2-tonne 'mother reels'. How the water trea
Sausages
Jul 31, 2018 · 59 min
How a factory in North Yorkshire produces 625,000 sausages a day, using machines that can fill 600 sausages in a minute. How low and slow shallow frying delivers the best combinati
Curry
Aug 14, 2018 · 59 min
How a factory in Nottinghamshire produces 250,000 jars of curry sauce each day. How chillies are harvested on small farms in India, dried, packed down, and processed into chilli po
Potato Waffles
Feb 26, 2019 · 59 min
How a factory in Lowestoft produces 450 tonnes of frozen food each day. The differences between waxy and floury potatoes, and which you should use for which job. How the potato's n
Pizza
Mar 5, 2019 · 59 min
How a factory in Italy produces 400,000 frozen pizzas each day. The science that makes mozzarella work so well on pizza. How pork is transformed into pepperoni. How freezer ships a
Beer
Mar 12, 2019 · 59 min
How Britain's biggest brewery produces 3 million pints of beer a day in Burton upon Trent. How four basic ingredients – water, malted barley, hops and yeast – are manipulated to ma
Pencils
Mar 19, 2019 · 59 min
Gregg Wallace is in Germany at a historic pencil factory where they produce 600,000 writing implements a day. Cherry Healey examines the astonishing properties of graphite. Histori
Cheese
Mar 26, 2019 · 59 min
How a cheese factory in Gateshead produces 3,000 tonnes of spreadable cheese every year - making cheddar, chopping and blending it with whey, water, and other ingredients. How bact