Inside the Factory XL: Buses

Original version

Simulcast of BBC Two Wales in high definition

BBC Two Wales HD

Inside the Factory

Documentaries

Factual: Food & Drink

Factual: Science & Nature: Science & Technology

A look at some of the largest factories in Britain.

Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey hit factory floors across Britain for a snoop around their supersized production lines. What are the secrets behind our supermarket staples?

Buses

BBC Two England

England

Simulcast of network BBC Two in high definition.

BBC Two HD

Simulcast of BBC Two Northern Ireland in high definition

BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

BBC Two Northern Ireland

Until 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales (analogue) was known simply as BBC Two Wales. BBC Two Wales (digital) was BBC 2W. From 03/01/2009 BBC Two Wales schedules on both analogue and digital became identical

BBC Two Wales

Gregg Wallace

Cherry Healey

Ruth Goodman

Lucy Carter

Sanjay Singhal

Michael Rees

Voltage TV

Inside the Factory: Series 7: Buses

Series 7

BBC Two - Inside the Factory, Series 7, Buses

Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses.

Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Ruth Goodman learns about London’s earliest double-deckers.

The red double-decker bus is a global icon. They carry millions of passengers every day across the capital and are as synonymous with London as Tower Bridge and Buckingham Palace. Now, Gregg Wallace has special access to a factory in Scarborough, Yorkshire, where they build this famous people mover. But the bus that Gregg is helping to produce is a little bit special, because it’s fully electric.

Gregg helps the factory across all stages of the bus's construction, including operating a crane to lower the bus's steps in place, adding the anti-slip lino, riveting and gluing the walls and wiring the electrics - before taking on the nerve-wracking task of driving the finished bus out of the factory.

Meanwhile, Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory, where she gets to grips with the construction of tough laminated heated windscreens. And in the main bus factory, she helps to give the bus its bright red coat of paint. She also visits an offshore wind farm to learn how turbines convert wind into watts that could one day power the electric buses.

Historian Ruth Goodman learns about London’s earliest double-deckers and the vital role they played in the First World War.

Inside the Factory: Series 7

BBC Two

Knowledge, drama, comedy and the arts for a broad adult audience.

BBC Two is a lively channel of depth and substance, carrying a range of knowledge-building programming complemented by great drama, comedy and arts.

Gregg Wallace accesses the huge factories making our most iconic vehicles.

In this series of supersized specials, Gregg Wallace accesses huge factories using extraordinary engineering processes to make our most iconic vehicles.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Inside the Factory

Series 7

Buses

Contributors

Genres

Formats

Brand

Series

BBC Two Wales HD

About BBC Two