Megafactories

Thursday 22 March 2:00-3:00am, National Geographic

This series guides viewers through a spectrum of factories across the world, and this particular episode delves into Mini production.

The programme is focused primarily on BMW-era Minis, but can’t help but bring up Cowley’s history. There are historic pieces of footage throughout the show, including a section on plant life during the original Mini years, as well as gratuitous Mini Cooper S rallying footage.

The content delivery is quite factual and dry, like a documentary about the British car industry should be, but Mini experts probably won’t find out anything that they didn’t already know.