The McVitie's factory in Carlisle, Cumbria, opens its doors to reveal how millions of the nation's favourite biscuits are made, 24 hours a day, in one of Britain's biggest factories and oldest biscuit factory in the world.
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The McVitie's factory in Carlisle, Cumbria, opens its doors to reveal how millions of the nation's favourite biscuits are made, 24 hours a day, in one of Britain's biggest factories and oldest biscuit factory in the world.
From making fresh spaghetti and mixing the top-secret ingredients for sauce, to giant automated cranes and the latest robots, join today's Heinz factory workers alongside tomorrow's machines, making cans of household favourites.
Buildings with eccentric and unorthodox designs often have methods behind their madness, and serve to remind us of moments in history.
Buildings with eccentric and unorthodox designs often have methods behind their madness, and serve to remind us of moments in history.
City squares have distinctive characters and often play a major role in enriching and enhancing the cultures of their cities.
Monuments like the Great Sphinx, Hagia Sophia and Statue of Liberty are valued for their historical, religious and national significance.
Sports stadiums are widely considered architectural treasures, on par with shrines, cathedrals and other important monuments.
Television towers are a distinctive type of structure that have long transcended the utilitarian purpose they were designed for.
Larry takes on an impossible mission: he's been asked to find an item worn in space by Apollo 15 legend Al Worden. Torie searches for Russian space items for a museum in San Francisco and Cole goes on the hunt for an item from Apollo 13.
We look at a newly discovered and oldest existing mammal tail preserved in Amber and being studied by scientists.
To mitigate this climate emergency, we must use all of the tools at our disposal, like the Nuclear Energy. This documentary looks at the new safer nuclear technology and how it could be utilised in a coal burning country like Australia.
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