Four modern bakers bake their way through the era that gave us modern baking as we know it - the reign of Queen Victoria. Experts Alex Langlands and Annie Gray join them to tell the incredible story of our daily bread. The journey begins in 1837, when bread was the mainstay of most diets and bakers were at the heart of every community.

Episode 1

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Four professional bakers leave their modern businesses behind to bake their way through the Victorian era. They set up shop in 1837, when their trade was vital to the survival of the nation.

Victorian Bakers

Series 1

Four professional bakers leave their modern businesses behind to bake their way through...

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The bakers have left the rural bakehouse and the golden age of baking behind, this time it's the 1870s and they're moving into an urban bakery in the midst of the Industrial Revolution.

Episode 2

At last cake maker Harpreet Baura can take the lead even though there were no female master bakers in 1900. The sheer ingenuity and scientific knowledge possessed by late Victorian bakers impresses them all as they get to work filling their shop window.