4.4 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Dan Saladino tells the story of one of Britain's oldest and most popular biscuits, the digestive. He follows the story from a farmers wheat field to a food factory in London.
Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
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0:46.3 | addition. |
0:47.3 | Unless Jeff Bezos has other ideas, this is the closest I'm going to get to being an astronaut. The roll is one half through, and it's one half through. |
1:07.0 | It's been half through. |
1:09.0 | He's being semilina as being made. I'm wearing a helmet and a small microphone is hovering in front of my mouth, but instead of doing a spacewalk, this kit is helping me talk as I move through one of the UK's oldest running mills. So she was on the hopper and it's stuffed up across the lawn and the mill. |
1:35.0 | Grains of wheat are being moved up and down five floors, a process of milling and sifting. |
1:42.0 | And it's so loud loud it's only possible to talk through the |
1:46.4 | intercom placed around our helmets. |
1:50.9 | We're taking all the semilina and the flower out of it. |
1:57.0 | Our ancestors began growing and breaking down grains of wheat |
2:01.0 | more than 10,000 years ago. In the 21st century, we've turned that process into a science. |
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