Electrolysis of aluminium | Inside the Factory

Duration: 6'15''

Synopsis

Cherry travels to Scotland to visit the UK's last remaining factory that produces aluminium via smelting and electrolysis.

Further Information

More clips from Inside the Factory

S07E02: Buses | Inside the Factory

S07E02: Buses | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 58'54''

Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Rut...

S07E04: Diggers | Inside the Factory

S07E04: Diggers | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2021 | 59'03''

Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get special access to a factory that makes as many as a hundred iconic yellow diggers every single day.

S07E04: Jaffa Cakes | Inside the Factory

S07E04: Jaffa Cakes | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2023 | 58'49''

Gregg Wallace visits a factory that churns out 1.4 billion Jaffa Cakes a year, while Cherry Healey is in the city responsible for gr...

School Dinner History | Inside the Factory

School Dinner History | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2023 | 6'41''

Ruth Goodman serves up the history of school dinners with UCL's Professor Gary McCulloch.

S07E02: Buses | Inside the Factory

S07E02: Buses | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 58'54''

Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Rut...

S07E04: Diggers | Inside the Factory

S07E04: Diggers | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2021 | 59'03''

Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey get special access to a factory that makes as many as a hundred iconic yellow diggers every single day.

S07E04: Jaffa Cakes | Inside the Factory

S07E04: Jaffa Cakes | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2023 | 58'49''

Gregg Wallace visits a factory that churns out 1.4 billion Jaffa Cakes a year, while Cherry Healey is in the city responsible for gr...

School Dinner History | Inside the Factory

School Dinner History | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2023 | 6'41''

Ruth Goodman serves up the history of school dinners with UCL's Professor Gary McCulloch.

More resources about Engineering and Manufacturing

02: CS Mackay-Bennett | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

02: CS Mackay-Bennett | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

BBC Two | 2014 | 58'41''

David tells the story of CS Mackay-Bennett, a cable repair ship launched on the Clyde in 1884. She k...

03: Robert E Lee | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

03: Robert E Lee | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

BBC Two | 2014 | 59'09''

During the American Civil War, Glasgow shipbuilders and captains made a fortune running the supplies of w...

01: Cutty Sark | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

01: Cutty Sark | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

BBC Two | 2014 | 59'10''

David Hayman travels to Australia to uncover the links Cutty Sark forged with this Commonwealth country, an...

04: HMS Hood | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

04: HMS Hood | Clydebuilt: The Ships That Made the Commonwealth

BBC Two | 2014 | 59'01''

David Hayman meets some of the men who sailed on HMS Hood. He travels to Scapa Flow to experience what life w...

Lasers, echoes and digital mapping | Scotland from the Sky

Lasers, echoes and digital mapping | Scotland from the Sky

BBC One | 2021 | 3'11''

Modern technology using lasers and echoes allow archaeologists to digitally map landscapes uncovering more history...

M8 motorway | Scotland from the Sky

M8 motorway | Scotland from the Sky

BBC One | 2021 | 3'59''

The controversial M8 motorway tore down much of Glasgow's centre to make way for a throughroad and clear up its traffic issues.

S03E10: Edinburgh | Local Heroes

S03E10: Edinburgh | Local Heroes

BBC Two | 1998 | 29'04''

This week Hart-Davis makes the journey to Elgin, re-creating the moment when Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and to the site w...

S03E16: Glasgow | Local Heroes

S03E16: Glasgow | Local Heroes

BBC Two | 1998 | 28'57''

Adam Hart-Davis concludes the series by visiting western Scotland. There he learns about John Logie Baird, inventor of the television, Lord Ke...

S04E02: Scotland | Local Heroes

S04E02: Scotland | Local Heroes

BBC Two | 1999 | 29'05''

Adam Hart-Davis's cycling tour of Britain takes him to Scotland, where he visits St Andrews to see how backspin helps a golf ball defy gravit...

Episode 1 | Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?

Episode 1 | Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?

BBC Two | 2017 | 58'44''

Chris Hadfield, Dr Kevin Fong and Dr Iya Whiteley put 12 candidates through a series of physical and psychological tests t...

Episode 1 | Building Cars: Secrets Of The Assembly Line

Episode 1 | Building Cars: Secrets Of The Assembly Line

BBC Two | 2019 | 1'28'11''

As the Mini turns 60, buckle up for an incredible journey into the secret world of the car factory. Every 68 seconds ...

S02E03: Smartphone | The Secret Genius of Modern Life

S02E03: Smartphone | The Secret Genius of Modern Life

BBC Two | 2023 | 59'03''

With rare access to electronics giant Samsung, Hannah uncovers the technological game changers that have made the smart...

Episode 4 | Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?

Episode 4 | Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?

BBC Two | 2017 | 58'18''

The competition becomes more intense as the remaining candidates are deprived of oxygen to see if they can recognise the s...

Episode 2 | Building Cars: Secrets of the Assembly Line

Episode 2 | Building Cars: Secrets of the Assembly Line

BBC Two | 2015 | 1'28'30''

James May, Kate Humble and Ant Anstead are back at one of the biggest and busiest car factories in Britain. Think you...

Episode 5 | Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?

Episode 5 | Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes?

BBC Two | 2017 | 58'32''

The astronaut candidates fight for their place in the final. Their leadership skills are assessed in a survival test and t...

S06E06: Chairs | Inside the Factory

S06E06: Chairs | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 59'09''

Gregg Wallace visits the Ercol factory in Buckinghamshire to follow the production of a Windsor chair. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey investiga...

Quality control | Inside the Factory

Quality control | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2020 | 2'22''

Gregg Wallace visits the quality control area of the factory.

S02E04: Bicycles | Inside the Factory

S02E04: Bicycles | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2016 | 58'59''

Gregg Wallace visits Britain's largest bicycle factory, which produces 150 folding bikes every day, and joins a production line to make...

S07E02: Buses | Inside the Factory

S07E02: Buses | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 58'54''

Gregg Wallace gets exclusive access to a factory that builds red London buses, while Cherry Healey visits a bus windscreen factory and Rut...

Sourcing and processing timber | Inside the Factory

Sourcing and processing timber | Inside the Factory

BBC Two | 2022 | 5'09''

Cherry investigates the source of wood used for making Windsor chairs, and the process it undergoes to make it ready for ...