Inside the Christmas Factory

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3:55 PM to 5:10 PM

Wednesday 22 October

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Gregg Wallace visits a factory that produces two million tins of festive chocolate assortments a year, with 5,500 individual sweets packaged and dropped into containers every minute. Cherry Healey learns how the Royal Mail produces Christmas stamps, and also travels to Germany to join a crew of 35 ornament decorators applying glitter and paint to glass Santas. Historian Ruth Goodman goes on the trail of the festive turkey, a tradition that began in the 16th century when these birds were first introduced from Mexico