Overview
- The episode will be available on BBC iPlayer shortly after its 8 pm UK broadcast.
- Cameras follow the full production of Jammie Dodgers, with output reported at about 4.4 billion biscuits a year.
- Featured machinery includes a brass roller forming 2,880 tops and bottoms per minute and a conveyor oven the length of eight double-decker buses.
- The Llantarnam factory has produced biscuits since 1939, employs more than 700 people, and also makes Wagon Wheels.
- Presenter Paddy McGuinness meets long-serving staff, and general manager Rebecca Phillips says the visit celebrates teams producing millions of biscuits.