Inside the Factory: Christmas Gingerbread Special


8:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Tuesday, December 23 on BBC One London (1)

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About this Broadcast

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Christmas Gingerbread Special

Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey visit the Original Biscuit Bakers factory in Market Drayton, Shropshire, to learn how they produce 100,000 gingerbread biscuits each week. Historian Ruth Goodman joins astronaut Helen Sharman to explore Christmas in space and Bobby Seagull teaches Cherry how to wrap presents using maths


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Cast & Crew

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Paddy McGuinness (Presenter)
Cherry Healey (Presenter)
Ruth Goodman (Presenter)
Bobby Seagull (Contributor)
Helen Sharman (Contributor)
Lucy Carter (Executive producer)
Michael Rees (Executive producer)

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Did You Know..

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Paddy McGuinness (Presenter)
Born: August 14, 1973 in Farnworth, Bolton
Best Known For: Phoenix Nights, his TV presenting work, and his catchphrases.
Early-life: Born Patrick Joseph McGuinness in Bolton on August 14, 1973, where he went to school with Peter Kay. He had various jobs including as a silver service waiter at JJ's A La Carte Restaurant, a warehouse worker for Morrisons, a building site labourer, a lifeguard at Horwich leisure centre and a job cleaning machines at Warburtons bakery.
Career: While still working at Horwich, he filmed two episodes of That Peter Kay Thing and the first series of Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights. He left his job when work on the second series of Phoenix Nights began. The show spawned a spin-off series, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere. His popularity skyrocketed, and his ensuing stand-up tour was a major hit. McGuinness also released a fitness DVD titled Max & Paddy's The Power of Two. He went on to become a regular on TV, presenting Take Me Out, 71 Degrees North, Paddy's Show & Telly, Mad Mad World, Text Santa, Paddy's TV Guide, and Your Face Sounds Familiar. He's also guest-hosted The Paul O'Grady Show and featured alongside Rory McGrath in Rory and Paddy's Great British Adventure, which followed the duo's trips to remote communities where they participated in such sports as cheese rolling and bog snorkelling.
Quote: "It was never my conscious decision to go, 'I must put some catchphrases in here'. I just wrote it and did it to get something that people could be familiar with in the show, and it stuck."
Trivia: He has taken part in the charity football match Soccer Aid, which raises money for Unicef.
Cherry Healey (Presenter)
Born: December 05, 1979 in Shepherd's Bush, London
Best Known For: Presenting various BBC documentaries.
Early-life: Born Cherry Kathleen Chadwyck-Healey on December 5, 1979 in Shepherd's Bush, London. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College until 1999. Cherry got a degree in drama education and drama for social change at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Career: Healey has presented a number of documentaries on BBC Three, such as Cherry Has a Baby, Cherry Goes Dating and Cherry's Body Dilemmas. She presented Britain's Favourite Supermarket Foods on BBC One. Since 2015, she has presented E4's The Jump spin-off, The Jump: On the Piste. She co-presented two series of Inside the Factory for BBC Two, was a participant on Celebrity MasterChef in 2016 and, since 2017, has been co-presenting The Health Detectives and The Best of British Takeaways.
Quote: "I hate to admit this, but I had a negative view of single mums before I became one."
Trivia: She is a descendant of the Chadwyck-Healey baronets.
Ruth Goodman (Presenter)
Best Known For: Victorian Farm.
Early-life: Ruth was born in 1963. She made her TV debut in Tales from the Green Valley, which saw her spending a year reconstructing and maintaining a 17th-century farm with archaeologists Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands.
Career: In 2009, Goodman was part of a team that recreated everyday life on a small farm in Shropshire in the mid-19th century in popular BBC series Victorian Farm. Her other TV projects on similar lines include Edwardian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm and Wartime Farm. She has also presented Coast and 24 Hours in the Past. Away from her TV work, Goodman works with a range of institutions and museums such as The Weald and Downland, The Globe Theatre, and the National Trust.
Quote: "We matter. How our ancestors - ordinary men, women and children - solved the nitty gritty problems of everyday life made the world what it is today."
Trivia: In 2012, Goodman was awarded an Honorary Degree from Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln.
Bobby Seagull (Contributor)
Helen Sharman (Contributor)
Lucy Carter (Executive producer)
Michael Rees (Executive producer)

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