Victorian Bakers – Episode 1
|Catch up with the most recent episode of Victorian Bakers from Tuesday, 05 January 2016 at 8pm on BBC 2. Available to watch free, online here on BBC iPlayer.
Four bakers leave their businesses behind to experience what their profession was like during the Victorian era. They try working from a rural bake house kitted out exactly as it would have been in the 1830s, while historians Alex Langlands and Annie Gray fill in the background story.
In this edition of Victorian Bakers, the bakers must get to grips with centuries-old methods of bread making. That means doing everything by hand.