The Big Bread Experiment

Following a unique social experiment to try to bring a community together through bread. Curate Cath Vickers, a real-life `Vicar of Dibley' is starting up a bread group in her home town of Bedale in the Yorkshire Dales. We see with the help of professional artisan bakers Patrick Ryan and Duncan Glendinning, if they can generate enough enthusiasm to start up their own community bakery.

Led by curate Cath Vickers, a real-life 'Vicar of Dibley', the bread group based in the Yorkshire town of Bedale, has started training with professional bakers Patrick and Duncan, and are rapidly learning new skills. Renovation is also continuing at pace at the mill. However, a major setback throws everything into disarray. Can the project continue?

A year on since the experiment began, and after leader Cath Vickers was relocated further South, the Yorkshire-based bread group are now reformed and are forging ahead with plans for the community bakery. The mill is turning and producing flour, but the bread group need to find premises, hire a new trainee and get everything ready in time for their big launch.