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BBC – Inside the Factory Waxed Jackets (2019) 1080p HDTV

23/08/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Inside the Factory: Waxed Jackets (2019) 1080p HDTV
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Inside the Factory: Waxed Jackets
Gregg Wallace is in South Shields at a clothing factory where they produce 650 waxed jackets a day. He follows the production of water-resistant jackets from the arrival of 500-metre-long rolls of undyed cotton through to dispatch.
Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is learning about the science of staying dry. She finds that it is easy enough to waterproof a fabric by coating it in a non-permeable coating. [Read more…]

BBC – Inside the Factory Croissants (2019) 1080p HDTV

22/08/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Inside the Factory: Croissants (2019) 1080p HDTV
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Inside the Factory: Croissants
Gregg Wallace is in France at an enormous croissant factory where they produce 336,000 of the flaky pastries every day.
Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is testing the best way to eat a croissant. With the help of a professor who specialises in the science of our senses, she discovers that there is an optimum way to consume them.
Historian Ruth Goodman is in Paris investigating the croissant’s surprising Austrian origins. It is thought that it originated with a pastry called a kipferl, which Austrian bakers invented in the 17th century to commemorate a heroic victory over the armies of the Ottoman Empire. [Read more…]

BBC – Inside the Factory Shoes 1080p HDTV

15/07/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Inside the Factory Shoes 1080p HDTV
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Inside the Factory: Shoes
Gregg Wallace visits the UK’s largest sports shoe factory to see how 3,500 pairs of trainers are made every day, before meeting the man who comes up with the latest designs. Cherry Healey gets hands-on in a tannery, helping to process thousands of rawhides into finished leather for the nation’s shoes, and finds out how a ballet company painstakingly create 250,000 ballet shoes per year. Ruth Goodman reveals how, when the sewing machine was first introduced into shoe factories in the mid-19th century, traditional shoemakers went on strike to rebel against joining a restrictive production line. [Read more…]

BBC – Inside the Factory Cheese (2019)

31/03/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Inside the Factory: Cheese (2019)
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Inside the Factory: Cheese
Gregg Wallace is in Gateshead at a cheese factory where they produce 3,000 tonnes of spreadable cheese every year. He follows the production of jalapeno chilli flavour cheese from a 28,000 litre delivery of milk to 5,400 squeezy tubes.
Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is finding out how bacteria are responsible for the huge variety in smell, taste and appearance of different types of cheese. She learns that some smelly cheeses contain the same bacteria that are responsible for stinky feet.
Historian Ruth Goodman is finding out how cheddar, originally just one of hundreds of regional varieties in the UK, became the predominant hard cheese world wide. [Read more…]

BBC – Inside the Factory Pencils (2019)

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BBC – Inside the Factory: Pencils (2019)
English | Size: 1.39 GB
Category: Documentaries

Inside the Factory: Pencils
Gregg Wallace is in Germany, at a historic factory which produces 600,000 pencils a day. At materials intake he is astonished that the main material in a pencil is not lead, but graphite. He helps mix this with clay to produce a 250-kilo batch – enough for 200,000 pencils. [Read more…]

BBC – Inside the Factory Beer (2019)

15/03/2019 Learning for Life Leave a Comment

BBC – Inside the Factory: Beer (2019)
English | Size: 1.39 GB
Category: Documentaries

Gregg Wallace is in Burton upon Trent at Britain’s biggest brewery, where they produce 3 million pints of beer a day. He follows the production of Britain’s best-selling lager from raw barley to finished cans.
Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is learning how four basic ingredients – water, malted barley, hops and yeast – can be manipulated to make dark, heavy ales, light, fragrant lagers and everything in between
Historian Ruth Goodman is asking why Burton became the centre of brewing in Britain in the 19th century. The answer is that it is all in the water. [Read more…]

BBC – Inside the Factory Pizza (2019)

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BBC – Inside the Factory: Pizza (2019)
English | Size: 1.39 GB
Category: Documentries

Gregg Wallace is in Italy, at an enormous pizza factory where they produce 400,000 frozen pizzas each day.
Meanwhile Cherry Healey is asking if mozzarella – the traditional choice for pizzas – is also the scientific best bet. She finds that not all cheeses are equal, and that to melt well they must sit in a pH zone between 5 and 5.9.
Historian Ruth Goodman is investigating the technology that allows frozen foods like pizza to be transported across the globe. 150 years ago we were all ‘locavores’, eating locally sourced food. [Read more…]