Working from a rural bake house kitted out as it would have been in the 1830s four modern-day professional bakers get to grips with centuries-old methods of bread making.

The bakers have left the idyll of their rural bake house, it is now the 1870s and they're moving into an urban bakery during the Industrial Revolution. The bakers must now bake through the night to meet demand and start to add adulterants.

It is the 1900s and finally mechanisation starts to take the strain. The bakers now have an elegant shop on the high-street but must produce a huge range of pastries, cakes, confectionary and novelty breads to fill the shop window.