Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Fry’s have been producing chocolate for 250 years, but the family firm has undergone modernisation and become part of a large business empire. With increased mechanisation and fewer staff, what do the workers make of life in a modern chocolate factory?


Clip taken from The Factory, originally broadcast on BBC One (South West), 22 September 1978.





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