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Paint and Wallpaper

Gregg Wallace visits a colourful factory that produces 200,000 litres of paint and 10,000 metres of wallpaper every week.

Gregg Wallace explores the Farrow & Ball factory in Dorset to learn how they produce up to 200,000 litres of paint and 10,000 metres of wallpaper a week. They make 270 different coloured paints, but Gregg is learning how they make β€˜sulking room pink’.

Meanwhile, Cherry Healey discovers how a key ingredient in the paint-making process is mined at a huge china clay mine in Devon and learns the art of hanging wallpaper at a DIY school.

And Ruth Goodman is in the Lake District, exploring the history of wallpaper, and visits Portsmouth to uncover the extraordinary story of how ships in the First World War were painted with dazzling patterns to evade German submarines.

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Fri 15 Mar 2024 08:00

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Role Contributor
Presenter Gregg Wallace
Presenter Cherry Healey
Presenter Ruth Goodman
Line Producer Lena Piper
Series Producer Michael Rees
Executive Producer Lucy Carter
Executive Producer Sanjay Singhal
Director Duncan Thompson
Production Company Voltage TV

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