← Inside the Factory · Series 5

Soup

S5 · E7 · 21 Apr 2020 · 55 min

How a factory in Wigan produces two million tins of soup a day. Vegetable soup is followed from a pea harvest in Yorkshire right through to the finished soup going into cans and being dispatched. How the vitamin content of frozen vegetables can greatly exceed that of fresh. How a spinach soup based on a 17th-century recipe doesn't much resemble soup as we know it today. The history of the soup kitchen.

Directing

Sam Bailey · Director

Production

Sam Bailey · Producer

Samara Friend · Production Manager

Sound

Steve Tait · Music