Inside the Factory: How Our Favourite Foods Are Made (BBC2, 8pm)

GREGG Wallace and Cherry Healey step inside the factories that feed a nation, in a new three-part series revealing the wonders of the mass production process behind Britain’s favourite foods.

Each programme focuses on one crucial 24-hour period, following the staggering scale of the non-stop production lines and discovering the professional secrets behind our household staples. Telling the story of the people and technology that work around the clock, Gregg and Cherry learn about the surprising innovations that create the perfect product every time, and realise that they will never look at their daily grocery shop in the same way.

In the first episode, they trace the non-stop process of large-scale bread making. Feeding a nation that munches their way through 12 million loaves every day means the bread never sits still, as the pair find out how one of Britain’s biggest factories bake up to a million items a day. From processing truckloads of wheat through giant vibrating sieves to rolling the dough into cigar-shaped parts, and even undergoing a metal detector, Gregg is amazed by the sheer scale, speed and complexity behind producing such a staple part of Britain’s daily diet.

Meanwhile, historian Ruth Goodman steps back in time to find that bread was the most adulterated food in Victorian era, as homemakers taught themselves to be vigilant if they wanted to avoid hidden ingredients such as chalk, ash and even ground up bones.

But with 24 million slices of bread thrown away every day in modern day Britain, Cherry asks why we are so wasteful as a nation – and picks up some tips on how we can learn to enjoy every last crumb.

The Living and the Dead (BBC1, 9pm)

AN engineer is spooked by a gruesome apparition on All Hallows Eve, and when he and his colleagues flee the scene, the railway company suspends all work. The village's residents pass the incident off as excessive nervousness on the part of city-folk unaccustomed to rural life, but when the hauntings start to take a lethal bent, even they concede there is 'something wrong' with their home. Blame turns to the Appleby's, whose return co-incided with the supernatural influx, and as an increasingly unhinged Nathan draws the impressionable Harriet Denning back into his experiments, he earns the ire of not only his own wife, but also Harriet's father, the Reverend Denning. However, Nathan is convinced that only Denning, in his capacity as a clergyman, has the power to eradicate the danger Shepzoy now faces.

The Job Interview (C4, 9pm)

CAMERAS follow 24-year-old waitress Stefanie, 38-year-old Alistair, who is currently unemployed, and Ana, a 34-year-old air hostess from Spain, as they all apply for their 'dream job' with On Air Dining, who provide high-end in-flight meals for the private jets of millionaires. Recruiters Daniel and Charlie are looking for a concierge coordinator to manage the needs of their clients from their base of operations at Stansted Airport, and the idea candidate will need to prove their ability to think on their feet. Also hiring are Birmingham-based digital marketing company Wowzone, who are seeking an account manager, and self-confessed 'computer geek' Michael, ex-rockstar-to-be Ben, and 27-year-old Anna, who is willing to relocate from London for a new start, are all in the recruitment pool.

Wasted (E4, 10pm)

IT'S a while since the UK has produced a stoner comedy along the lines of Johnny Vegas' sitcom Ideal, and the fact this one features Sean Bean sending up his Games of Thrones character Ned Stark has been a major selling point. In the latest offering, following a night out in Bath, Morpheus (Danny Kirrane) leads his mates on an eight-mile trek back to Neston Berry, as instructed by his spirit guide (Bean). While Sarah (Rose Reynolds) experiences her 'seven stages of drunk', Kent (Dylan Edwards) tries a little too hard to impress a girl.

Viv Hardwick