Episodes
Inside the Factory: Buses (S7EP10 BBC Two Monday 8 August 2022)
Buses: A universal symbol is the red double-decker bus. Millions of people use them daily to travel across the city, and they are just as closely associated with London as Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace. Gregg Wallace now has exclusive access to the Scarborough, Yorkshire factory where the renowned people mover is made. But because it is entirely electric, the bus Gregg is working on is a little unique.
Before taking on the terrifying task of driving the finished bus out of the factory, Gregg assists the factory at all stages of the bus’ construction, including operating a crane to lower the bus’ steps into place, adding the anti-slip lino, riveting and glueing the walls, and wiring the electrics.
Cherry Healey, meanwhile, visits a bus windscreen factory where she learns how to make robust laminated heated windscreens. She also participates in painting the bus’s bright red exterior in the main bus factory. She also goes to an offshore wind farm to see how the wind is turned into the watts that will eventually run the electric buses.
Ruth Goodman, a historian, discovers the history of the first double-decker buses in London and their significance during the First World War.
Airdate: Monday 8 August 2022 at 21:00 on BBC Two
Season 7 Episode 10
Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest food factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind food production on an epic scale.