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Onwards! There are hundreds of jobs across the UK,

but who works the hardest?

The factory where I'm working is very, very difficult.

It's not easy at all.

Now, three people... Whoa!

..passionate about what they do for a living...

It's not so much a job, it's a way of life.

..are about to swap professions...

Yes!

I've always wanted to do that.

Ladies and...

Ladies and gentlemen...

..to decide whose is the toughest.

Do you think it's hard? Yes, it is a tricky job.

Oh! No, I can't! I can't do it!

No! No, no, no, no.

And who deserves to win...

Moment of truth.

Lovely job.

Drum roll, please.

..a prize...

It is a hard job.

I need to win it.

..of ?1,000?

We're all looking at that envelope over there, aren't we?

Thinking, "Is it us? Is it me?"

This time, a sausage factory supervisor,

bingo show host and head gardener go head-to-head.

I'm determined to win.

Not just for me, but for every other gardener out there

who works 12-hour back-breaking days.

Today, three people with very different jobs.

Supervisor Mica has been seasoning and stuffing sausages

at a Yorkshire factory for the past two and a half years.

So, to succeed at this job, you've got to be fast on your feet.

Fast with your hands.

You have to be on it all the time.

Show host Rob started calling numbers

at his local bingo hall two years ago.

I'm very proud to be a bingo show host

cos I like making people laugh. I like making people smile.

And it's a way that I can do that.

A duck and a crutch, number 27.

Some people at the bingo like to compare me to Mr Sheeran.

Yeah, pretty much every day.

Head gardener Dan is responsible for maintaining the manicured

grounds of a historic stately home near Doncaster.

On a daily basis, I can go from digging out

20 tonnes of compost into a bed,

to then coming up and delivering a five-year management plan

to the board of directors.

And I'd put it up there

as one of the toughest jobs.

Rob and Dan have no idea what job they'll be doing first...

Oh, no.

..but they're about to find out.

Let's go for it.

Today...

I've just got like a really sicky feeling in my stomach.

..you're going to be...

..a sausage factory supervisor.

Oh, wow! Ha-ha!

That is amazing.

OK.

Interesting.

Yeah, I like sausages, yeah. Can you tell?

I have no idea what you do in a sausage factory.

What's going to shock them the most will be the sensory overload

with the different sounds, smells and the temperature in there.

It's 6am in North Yorkshire and factory supervisor Mica

is already clocking in for her seven-hour shift. Morning!

A sausage factory supervisor can earn an average

of ?26,000 a year.

Mica works for a family-run factory

where she's responsible for quality control.

So, today, we've got half a million sausages

to get out there today to get to store.

It's so crucial to make sure we keep that speed.

Keep those lines fed.

If you don't, the sausage line stops.

I'm looking forward to today.

It'll be interesting.

Hi, guys! Hello. I'm Mica.

I'm Rob. Come on in.

So, today, you're going to be working a little bit of mixing,

weighing out meat, seasonings,

then you're going to be packing some sausages

and then we'll be sleeving, boxing and getting them ready for stores.

How are you guys feeling about this?

I have done a little bit of factory work in the past,

so I'm pretty confident I can keep up.

I'm a little bit nervous.

I've never done anything like this before,

so I've never made a sausage in my life.

It's now 7am. Having put their uniform on...

Are we going to rob a bank?

..the novices head to the factory floor

to start making sausages.

So, guys, this is the factory and behind us is the mixing rooms.

This is where you're going to start.

The production line makes the mix, places sausages in packs,

and then into cardboard sleeves.

A hold-up at any step of the process has a knock-on effect,

so working fast is essential.

I'm used to being outdoors

and kind of surrounded by nature

and the noise in here is really intense.

It feels like quite an intense atmosphere

with the machines running

and all the...all the people doing different jobs

and trying to make sure they're feeding their machines on time.

Most of the meat in the factory is chicken.

Rob needs to unpack and grind ten-kilo blocks of frozen meat

so it's ready for the sausage mix.

Let's get loaded up. Watch your fingers! Watch your fingers!

At the next stage, the chopped frozen meat

will be combined with fresh meat

to keep the mix at a safe eight degrees,

but it needs to be fed in carefully.

Overloading the grinder sends meat back,

slowing the process down.

The chicken's certainly firing back at the minute.

It is quite intense.

It is really intense.

And there's one gone!

With the first container filled,

Rob heads over to the mixer

where head gardener Dan's been put in charge.

Careful!

It's his job to season the chicken sausage mix

with a secret blend of herbs and spices.

Try and get it in the bowl, not outside the bowl.

I tried to go a bit in, but it didn't quite work.

If it's left any longer, it's going to be too chewy.

So we need to get that out.

I've got to kind of sweep this bad boy in there.

Careful, it's going on the floor there.

Too much. The line is waiting for it so we need to hurry up.

Dan's seasoned meat will now be loaded into a machine

which puts the sausage skins on.

He may be used to wheelbarrows, but this is a different matter.

You have to push it over there.

I thought it was going to be quite easy because it's on wheels.

I was surprised by the actual weight.

To keep the line running, Rob needs to restock

with meat from the freezer.

Having won his battle with the chicken,

he's now fighting the forklift.

I haven't got my driver's license.

You definitely need more practice at this. Yeah!

Yeah.With the line waiting for more meat,

Rob needs to get his forklift under control

to keep production flowing.

That's it! You work them muscles!

Think you're ready?

Is that OK? Let's drag her out.

Wow. Remember, it's a tonne so... It's a tonne of chicken.

..it's heavy.

I feel like I'm on Strong Man.

Driving that pallet thing, that was a good experience.

I've never done that before.

I don't think I'll be doing it again either, to be fair.

It's 10am, and with their sausage meat in the skins,

the first-time factory workers move on to packing.

OK, so what I need you two guys to do

is put ten sausages in a pack and put it on the conveyor belt.

Now, these guys are working at at least 35 packs a minute.

If you don't keep up with that,

these guys, they're not going to like you.

We'll do our best.

We don't want to upset everybody.

So, grab each end... Yeah.

..drop...

Feel like this is not going to be my forte in life.

How are you feeling, Rob?

I think I might be a tad slow.

You'll get there. You will. Yeah, yeah.

This one, on the other hand, I think is going to struggle.

I've never seen as many sausages as this in my whole life.

It's a lot harder than it looks.

A lot of the same movements, the same muscle movements.

Quite slippy, aren't they? Yeah. Yeah.

I think I'm a bit of a perfectionist and I'm trying to, like, figure out

the neatest way of doing everything.

I think you're thinking about it too much, yeah.

I think you just need to... Get 'em in there.

Yeah, get 'em in there.

I think Rob's better than you.

Seems to be getting very competitive, this.

Just remember, you've got to come to me.

Both Rob and Dan are falling short

of their 35-packs-a-minute target.

They should be doing more than 35,

and now they are doing only 22. They are slowing just a little bit.

Cos you guys are going a little bit slow,

how about a little bit of a contest? Yeah. Let's go for it. Yeah?

So the quickest person to pack ten packs...

Yeah. ..the winner.

Do we get a bonus?

You'll get a pack of sausages.

Go!

Ah!

I'm on my fifth one! Fifth!?

This is my fourth one I'm going onto.

Third! Ha-ha-ha!

Hey! House!

No way!

Nine!

I think I'm up to six.

I know I've lost, definitely lost.

Ten! Done!

That is not fair.

How on earth did you do that?

The thing I've always got to say is

you can't rush perfection.

The prettiest sausages are yours...

..and the fastest are Rob's. Yeah, OK.

Having only managed 23 of their 35-packs-a-minute target,

Mica pulls them off the production line.

I think the 35 packs a minute's a myth, to be honest.

There's just no way

that you could get them sausages in there quick enough.

With only two hours left in the day,

it's time for Rob and Dan to face their toughest challenge -

putting cardboard sleeves on the packs of sausages.

At this stage, you're going to have to work your fastest

you've ever worked today, OK? OK.

With only Dan and Rob doing the job and 35 packs arriving every minute,

they need to work quickly to prevent a backlog.

So if we do get a pile-up, we have to shout through the window

and get the whole line to stop.

And this is something we never, ever want to do.

There's a lot of sausages flying out there,

so it'll be interesting to see how we get on.

I'm feeling confident about the sleeving part of this job, definitely.

If it's anything like the packing of the sausages and the fiddliness,

I think I'll be OK.

That way? That's right, yeah.

And push it right in so it's not pushed right to the bottom.

Like that? Yeah.

And then you just put it on there? It's really fiddly, isn't it?

Yeah.

So you're already getting a little bit of a pile up.

Oh, my God. OK.

With sausages hitting the table faster than they can put sleeves on,

the rookies are struggling.

I'm going to have to help you, guys, because this is... I didn't realise it was going to pile up so quick.

There seems to be a technique that the guys had that we're struggling with.

I've never seen a pile this big.

Come on, guys. I don't want to have to stop that line.

This is really hard.

The pile-up has left the box handlers hanging around.

The guys are actually waiting for you now. OK.

They're stood still. They're not doing anything.

They don't like stood still, so... Right.

There's a sausage pack on the floor. Oh, my God.

Dropped sausages is dropped profit!

I apologise profusely.

With the speed overwhelming them,

Mica drafts in some sleeving support.

Just keep calm. Look at us all helping you.

Oh, we're flying now! We're flying!

This line runs at the same rate all day long,

so you have to keep this speed all day.

I don't think this is something I could do every day.

It's a very fast pace. Yeah.

Are you eating your words a little bit?!

Even with extra hands to help,

it's not enough to stop the worst possible outcome.

I've just had to shout through the window and stop the machine.

Oh. So you failed miserably.

Yeah, I think we certainly did. Sorry, guys.

All sorts were happening on that table.

It was a nightmare.

Right, guys, I think I'm going to pull you off the line.

I think that's enough. I think I've seen enough.

Thank you. And sorry.

Well, well done, guys. You did well. Thank you. Thank you very much.

How do you feel?

I think it was more challenging than anticipated.

Yeah. Good. I think the second half was a really fast pace.

We worked as a team to try and get those speeds that we require.

And I think they found that very hard.

It's not an easy job.

But it's the scores Rob and Dan put on their feedback forms that count.

They'll rate the working conditions

and the mental and physical demands out of ten.

The higher the number, the harder the job,

with a combined maximum score of 60.

I think the job was mentally challenging

due to the high speed demand.

You know, processing the same thing over and over again.

So I'm going to give mental demands a six.

There's a lot of heavy lifting.

You know, there's the one tonne pallets,

lots of lifting of the pallets on to the machine.

And there's lots of repetitive hand movements.

For the physical demands, I'm going to score this one a seven.

They'll all find out their total scores

and who's won the ?1,000 prize on the final day.

Rob hasn't spoken about his job to Dan and Mica,

so they have no idea what they'll be doing next.

But they're about to find out.

OK, let's go.

Today...

The suspense is killing me.

..you're going to be...

..a bingo show host.

What?!

Well, I was not expecting that. That's hilarious.

Number 11.

Number five.

Two fat ladies, 88.

They're going to have a lot to learn and they're going to be nervous.

It's 10:00am in Hartlepool

and bingo show host Rob is preparing for his eight-hour shift.

Testing, testing. A duck and a crutch, number 27.

Hardworking bingo callers can earn up to ?15,000 a year.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how they get on today

cos it's not just pressing a button on a stage.

There's a lot more to it than that.

So, are you nervous about today? I am nervous. It's just totally different to what I'm used to.

The biggest challenge is probably going to be the customers.

I think they'll definitely know when they're doing something wrong

cos the customers will certainly be very vocal about it.

Hello. Hi. All right? Nice to see yous again. Yeah, you too.

Do you want to come in? Thank you very much.

So, welcome to my office!

That's what I'm going to call it today.

Today, you're going to be learning how to call the numbers, learning a lot of buttons,

and then we will actually get you up there in front of customers,

calling the bingo.

I think the biggest challenges you're going to face today

is probably dealing with the customers.

They will let you know if you've done anything wrong.

I'm slightly nervous about standing up and calling those numbers out,

just because I know how serious bingo can be.

And if you miss any numbers or you're not clear enough,

you can be told off.

I definitely don't want a granny telling off!

Every day, the hall hosts an afternoon session

before things get really busy in the evening.

It's now one o'clock and show time for the early birds.

When he's not calling numbers,

one of Rob's jobs is to check customers in at the door.

Dan and Mica are put in charge.

Hiya.

Thank you very much.

There you go. Thank you. Hiya.

I love reception. You're meeting and greeting the customers,

so you're the first person the customer speaks to,

giving them that positive attitude.

I'm going to try to drop a few jokes in there,

but not make it so people get too upset with me.

Feel free to come to me as well. I don't bite!

Believe it or not! Unless you'd like me to! Thank you.

I'm just trying to get everybody onside

so you don't boo me later when I'm' calling out!

Sheila, looking lovely tonight. Thank you.

While Dan banters with the bingo players,

it seems his number is already up with the boss.

Dan.

We don't sit down on the job. Stand up.

Really? Absolutely. Sorry.

Cards marked, Dan and Mica are on their best behaviour.

They now need to learn how to call numbers

as they'll be hosting in half an hour.

So for the very first number, I like to say 28, two and eight, 28.

28. 28.

So you've got a little timer under here.

So that tells you when to do the next number.

When to say the next one, yeah.

Eight and two, 82.

Five and three, 53.

That's pretty quick. Seven and one, 71.

I'm freaking out. I'm freaking out. I'm freaking out!

It's a lot to take in.

Yeah, on your first day, it is, yeah.

It's a relatively small and quiet crowd of 200

for the first session of the day.

Rob takes to the stage to show them how it's done properly.

The crowd look very serious, so...

Yeah. I think we need to be really...

Yeah, I don't think they're going to be very happy with jokes and things.

I think they're wanting a very strict regime. Yeah.

The novice callers have been tasked with checking winning tickets.

We are playing ?10 for your line, ?15 for two lines

and ?30 for your full house.

First number...

..is 87, eight and seven, 87.

You can tell he's done it before.

It's really, really quick.

He's just kind of reeling it off. It's natural to him.

Five and two, 52. A couple of claims on 52.

Nice and quick with these, please.

When a player wins, a member of staff has to verify the claim.

It's that number there, Dan, you need to just... With the zero.

So the number is eight, five, seven, eight, seven, two.

Good full house there. That does bring an end to that one.

And we're going straight away into that pink flyer.

Having learnt from the master,

it's time for Dan to host his first game for paying customers.

All right? All right, mate? Yeah. How are you feeling? Getting there.

A bit nervous. A bit nervous? Yeah.

I've got a mixture of emotions at the moment. I'm quite excited, but I'm a bit nervous as well.

I don't want to upset the crowd, you know.

But I also want it to be a bit more entertaining.

I don't want it to be just kind of like their standard day at bingo.

I want to give it a bit of Dan finesse.

Dan has ten minutes to call this game before the next one starts.

He'll need to call quickly, but give players enough time to find their numbers.

Can everybody hear me OK? There you go. There you go.

All you beautiful people. Thank you.

First line across...

..four and two, 42.

Seven and two, 72.

Three and seven, 37.

With time tight, Dan's slow delivery is worrying Rob.

Keep your numbers together.

One and eight, 18. Yeah, that's better.

All the sixes, 66.

Claim on 66. We've got a claim in the room.

Mica, we've just been told that that's the naughty corner.

So, please be on your best behaviour.

With only a minute left, Mica needs to verify the win quickly

so Dan can finish on time.

It's eight, three, seven, four, one, O.

A good full house there. Good full house. Congratulations.

Thank you very much for allowing me to do the bingo today.

She just gave you the thumbs down!

Thank you very much. Thank you.

I think overall, quite good. I got a round of applause.

I played up to the crowd a little bit, you know.

But not everyone appreciates Dan's style.

Are you calling out again? No. You'll be glad to know. Good!

It's obvious that I've got everybody onside!

Dan's now on standby to verify wins

and it's Mica's turn to call the numbers for the first time.

I am so scared.

I just... I can't imagine what it's going to be like

with all those people in there.

But I'm going to just try and breathe and get through this.

Looking for your line across, first number.

And we're looking for your line across, first number.

Away you go.

Four and two, 42.

Four and zero, 40.

She's doing well.

Four on its own, four.

Five and four, 5... And we've got claim on 54.

OK, thank you, Mica.

The number is one, eight, six, seven, two, six, zero.

So, one winner at ?30. Thank you, guys.

A happy Mica has got through her first session without any hiccups.

So scary, but...

..after I've done that I feel really happy.

I can't stop smiling.

I've just been up there and I've just done it. Yeah.

Dan is really enthusiastic.

His only drawback is that he's spending too much time

thinking about the customers and making them laugh.

I did actually notice a customer give Dan a bit of a thumbs down towards the end!

It's now six o'clock and time for the busy evening session,

which attracts up to 600 of Hartlepool's most serious bingo players.

This evening, they are going to really need to up their game a little bit.

There's going to be a lot more people in here.

The atmosphere is going to feel so much different than this afternoon.

If they can't do their job, the customers will be vocal

because at the end of the day it's their money that they're spending

and we want them to come back.

Wow. Oh, my God. It's a little bit busier than...

It's like double the people. I know. It's amazing. We'll be fine.

I am starting to get a little bit nervous, starting to get those butterflies.

Just because I know that it's going to be a lot busier than it was this morning.

And, also, it's going to be really serious.

The top prize on offer is ?100.

Dan is the first to step up to the podium.

There you go. Oh, dear.

Oh, dear.

If you want to go on to there, mate, and I'll stand this side.

And away we go. First number coming out.

Six and two, 62.

One and seven, 17.

Seven, O, 70.

Dan's anxiety is making him call the numbers too quickly

and the crowd can't keep up.

They're a bit fast. A bit fast there. Sorry, guys.

A bit fast, a bit fast.

55... Full house!

In all the confusion, Dan has missed a winner's claim.

There's a claim. Oh, sorry.

Sorry about that. It was way too fast.

Eight, one, six, zero, five, zero.

One winner of ?100. Well done. That page is done.

Thank you very much. Goodbye.

Session over, Dan can't get off the stage quick enough.

Well done.

Well done, you did amazing. I was getting jeered and all sorts.

What did they say to you? They were going, "Slow down! Slow down!"

You handled it well. I just carried on.

Tough crowd out there. Tough crowd. Tough crowd.

Dan did get a few heckles, which has made me feel even more nervous.

So, hopefully, I'll keep steady.

I am going to hand you over to the lovely Mica

to call the rest of your first half.

So, go easy on her, please. Thank you, Mica.

So, we're looking for a line across.

First number.

Five and eight, 58.

Eight and two, 82.

Four and five... Wait. Five and four, 54.

Sorry about that, guys.

Five and one, 50. 51.

Sorry.

Bless her. It's not easy.

With an irritated crowd confused by Mica's mistakes,

they demand a check on the numbers.

So, we've got two, 18, 20, 84 and the last number called was 26.

So, I'm going to hand you over to Mica again. She's doing fantastic, isn't she?

Thank you. There we go.

With Rob's support, Mica's back in the game.

Six and two, 62.

All the fours, 44.

On its own, number six.

House! There's a claim there on six.

Three, eight, seven. That's a great full house. Thank you very much.

So, that brings an end to your first half. So, thank you very much

and well done to all those winners. Thank you very much, Mica.

Can we have a nice round of applause for Mica, please.

That was fantastic.

After an eight-hour shift,

Rob's called time on Dan and Mica's day as show hosts.

It's just so stressful.

You know, I feel like I need to go to bed.

I am so exhausted.

And not because it's physical, but because it's so mentally draining.

Rob set out to prove how hard his job is.

I think they have had quite a bit of a shock coming here.

The confidence was great,

just the timing and the bits in between that weren't so great,

to be honest with you.

But it's what Dan and Mica put on their feedback forms that counts.

I think the mental aspects of the job was the most difficult.

I was kind of expecting just to pull a ball out,

read the number, put it to one side.

But there was actually a lot more to it than that.

I'm going to go...eight.

There's so much going on in your mind as well as your mind going,

"Oh, my God, I can't do this. Oh, my God, I'm so nervous."

Your mind is just working on overdrive constantly.

Score wise, I'm going to go for a ten.

With all three categories complete,

the final scores will be totted up and revealed at the end of the week.

It's the final day of trying each other's jobs to see

whose is the hardest.

Dan hasn't revealed his job to Rob and Mica,

so they have no idea what he does for a living.

But they're about to find out.

Today, you're going to be...

..a head gardener.

Oh, my God. I know nothing about plants.

I would hate to be thrown into anything that involved

any sort of muck on my hands.

I'm quite a clean person.

I don't like getting my hands mucky.

I couldn't tell you what was a weed and what is a flower.

The workers will find it really tough today

because we're going to be doing a series of different jobs

which will carry on through any weather.

Whatever it throws at us,

we'll have to keep going. That's how we work.

It's 7:30am at Brodsworth Hall in South Yorkshire.

Built in 1861, this Victorian country house

is surrounded by manicured lawns,

complete with fabulous flowerbeds, a topiary garden

and even a lawn for archery.

I think the main thing they're going to find difficult today

is the quality of finish that's going to be expected.

Head gardener Dan leads a team of 40 people

to keep these 18 acres of period gardens pristine and perfect.

Nature never stops. Trees continue to grow. Shrubs keep growing.

And we've got to keep on top of that

and make sure it's absolutely perfect

every time our visitors step through that door.

I think he'll be having us cutting hedges and digging things out.

Digging some manure, I think. Yeah. Definitely.

Hi, guys. You all right? Morning, Dan. Welcome to Brodsworth.

Thank you. OK. So a quick run through.

Today, we're going to be going down on to the target garden

and that's going to be removing the summer bedding and replanting with the spring bedding.

Once we've done not, we'll be then moving on to topiary.

A bit of shaping with the bushes in there.

Then we're going on to a garden tour.

So, we're going to have to learn the history of the site,

we're going to need to know the plants,

you'll need to know about the gardens.

I'm excited for today. I'm not too keen on getting too mucky, but I will give it a go.

Well, good luck with keeping not mucky!

An experienced head gardener like Dan could earn up to ?30,000 a year.

But today he needs to get back to basics,

teaching two very green gardeners.

OK, guys, we're going to remove the summer bedding

and plant the spring bedding in there.

This is where the physical side's going to really kick in

and there's going be a lot of shovelling,

a lot wheelbarrowing, a lot digging.

We'll be planting about 220 wallflowers to that bed.

We should be looking to complete that planting in half an hour.

I don't think half an hour is going to quite cut it.

Yeah. It's my first time doing this. You'll be cracking the whip!

I'm not too keen on things being on my hands that are mucky, you know what I mean?

The first task for Mica and Rob is spreading 200 kilos of manure

on to the beds to nourish the soil.

That's it. Right, tip it out.

Lovely job.

What you want to be doing while Mica goes and gets another wheelbarrow

is spreading that. Spreading all that.

Just churning.

That's it.

Get stuck in. Are you getting tired yet? How are you finding it?

I'm getting warm. Are you getting warm? Very warm. Yeah.

72,000 flowers are planted at Brodsworth every year,

with the gardeners getting through 70 tonnes of manure.

It is hard work, isn't it? It's peanuts, this.

We've got to continue, work needs to be done,

because when Mr and Mrs Smith come at the weekend, you know,

they want to see that garden looking perfect.

20 minutes in and the duo haven't even started planting.

I am feeling under pressure.

I feel like we're pushed for time as well, so...

Yeah, I feel knackered.

Oh, my goodness.

Look at the size of that!

Careful with that one, cos that one's Brian.

He's been in the garden for years, so...

Now the beds are ready,

the team can plant the 220 wallflowers.

Dig it in, like that. Plant in.

Straight across and just give it a little firm down.

You made that look very easy.

Well, I could plant this bed on my own in probably 15, 20 minutes.

Wow. That's crazy.

So many of these beds do you usually do?

I probably do about six or seven of these easily.

So you're looking at, I don't know,

4,000 or 5,000 plants in a day, really.

Ooh!

As plants start going in thick and fast,

Rob is struggling with the pace.

Come on. Keep going.

This is what gardening is, unfortunately.

It's getting dirty, getting them plants in there.

That's it. That's better. So straight on to your next one.

So, guys, have we converted you into gardeners?

I love this. I think I've lost half a stone so far!

I'm glad you're enjoying yourself, Mica.

Look at the state of your hands! Where are your gloves?

Well, welcome to gardening!

I wanted the au naturel feel, I think!

Ugh!

Getting my hands mucky. But I'm kind of regret it now.

It doesn't feel too good, to be honest with you.

Yeah, I think I'll pass on the gardening. I'll stick to the nice,

warm, cosy bingo hall! OK.

The reality of working on a heritage estate,

there's a lot of work to do.

It's physical and it's mentally tiring as well.

As the last plant goes in,

it's time for Dan to assess his trainees' work.

There's still a little bit of a gap in certain areas,

but I'd say 90% of it's bang on.

And it's your first attempt at doing this. Yeah.

And what I can say today, you've given everything 100% and that's all I can ask for.

So, really pleased with what you've done.

I did kind of get stuck in the mud today, yeah.

Very dirty hands, very dirty knees, a dirty face.

The planting really wasn't my cup of tea.

I didn't quite enjoy that.

But the day's only just getting going.

Brodsworth Hall hosts one of the country's most ornate topiary gardens,

where over 1,000 trees are sheared into meticulous shapes.

So, the skill is with topiary,

if one of the shrubs is not matching the one on the other side

it completely throws the symmetry of the garden out.

So it's vital that we get the lines perfect.

I think you'll definitely need to keep an eye on what we're doing

because I don't want to mess up...

Don't worry, I'll be watching you. It's fine. It's fine.

It takes three years of training to master the art of topiary,

so these novices will have their work cut out

to make their shaped bushes look perfect.

So what we're trying to do is find a line,

so you want to be kind of observing down the shrub all the time.

Get your line in there.

You want to get a really nice, smooth finish eventually on there

Then I'm going to come in like this.

It's going to be something very different that I've never done before,

so it should be quite a learning curve for me today.

This 140-year-old topiary garden has been under restoration since 1995.

After a health and safety briefing,

Dan asks them to cut a yew tree in 20 minutes.

Close them quite firm. Ooh! That's it.

Then drop your visor down.

One slip of the shears could undo 25 years of meticulous horticulture.

I don't want to ruin Dan's pride and joy,

so I'm feeling a bit nervous now.

Just a few minutes in, the pair are already struggling

with the precision required.

This is difficult to get this straight line.

I don't think I've even been going for ten minutes yet.

I'm dying!

And it looks like Rob's lines are dipping below Dan's high standards.

That's it. Just be careful not to dip too much. Right.

Obviously when we're doing this, you've got to be kind of a bit more up there, level.

It is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. Definitely.

I think it's about the confidence in using the trimmer.

It is quite a bit of kit, to be honest.

You really want to be getting all the sides done now

in next five minutes. OK.

Max now, ten minutes, to get all this done. OK.

With time running out, the trainee gardeners need to pick up the pace

without losing the precision required.

All right. Maybe there's a little bit of a curve.

Maybe it needs a little bit of work.

It does take it out of you, doesn't it?

I think I might get Dan to finish that one off!

It's now 3pm and with the trainee topiarists

taking 45 minutes to do their trees, Dan calls time.

Obviously, speed was kind of the biggest issue, really.

You know, for the amount of time we've spent on these,

we probably would have done about five or six of these pieces and cleared it up as well.

That was quite hard as well, using the extension right above your head.

Yeah, that was very difficult.

It was really tricky getting the symmetry right.

Obviously, I was doing a triangle and it sounds really easy.

It's really not.

Yeah, I imagine a full nine-hour shift

of just hedge trimming all day would take it out of you.

Using the big extendable one

was quite the task in itself, to be honest.

Having already done six hours hard graft,

the pair now need to master a totally different skill -

preparing for a visitors' tour of the garden

that they'll be leading in just one hour.

So we always speak about the fact that the gardens and the house was restored in the 1860s.

So it's a Victorian garden and Italianate in style. Italianate.

There are certain elements of the garden which is Edwardian.

So there's Victorian and Edwardian.

Cos basically people call it like a mini version

of Queen Victoria's house on the Isle of Wight.

So a miniature Queen Victoria's.

The tour is going to be starting soon.

If you guys can start practising what you're going to be saying, OK?

Yeah. Thank you.

It's remembering, like, the dates as well,

like the 1860s was when it was restored.

So that was probably the most important date. Yeah.

I think if we are just friendly to the people, they might not notice

that we know absolutely nothing about Brodsworth Hall's gardens!

Garden tours cost ?12 per person,

so there's pressure on the new trainees to do a good job.

To make matters worse, it's started to rain.

How are you both feeling?

Very nervous now that the guys are waiting.

And remembering all the notes.

It's just there's a lot to remember,

there's a lot of knowledge about different names of flowers,

different names of every single bush.

Today, ten visitors are booked on the tour.

Hello. Hi, guys.

Mica and Rob need to be on top of their facts

and keep punters entertained.

There's little bits of tarmac there, so that was the original tarmac.

Yeah, so that tarmac is hundreds of years old.

Brodsworth Hall was one of the first places to have tarmac

actually in the gardens, yeah.

But when it comes to the Latin names of the plants,

Rob's mixing his Marigolds with his magnolias.

You'll notice on your left-hand side we've got a lot of...

What are they called? Hemerocallis. Hemerocallis.

We leave them in. Quite a lot of places take them out for the winter and store them in greenhouses.

Is that right? No. It's the agapanthus that we do that with. The agapanthus, sorry.

And Dan has to step in.

Obviously, you've got your peonies and your mahonias.

And that then will eventually be the planting and colour palette

that we use all way through the gardens.

Obviously, these guys were about to say that,

but I just jumped in before them!

You just like the limelight!

Oh, my God. It's nerve-wracking. But they're all listening

and they're all engaged so we're doing all right. Yeah, that's good. Yeah.

Unable to remember the 72,000 plants in the garden,

Rob uses his bingo show hosting skills to win over his audience.

The reason that they've got this fern section

is actually because of the Victorian fern craze.

It sounds like a pretty tasty craze actually.

It's not something I'd be quite into, I don't think!

Apparently, the Victorians loved a bit of fern!

As the tour comes to an end...

I think they did really well, guys, don't you?

It's not easy so well done. Well done.

..Dan is happy with how they've done.

OK, guys, I think you did really well on that tour.

It's obviously nerve-wracking, standing up in front of people,

but obviously speaking about something that's not your day to day work as well.

So I think you did really well.

Even though it's like customer facing, it's a lot different to what I do.

I'm used to people kind of listening to me, but not talking back and asking questions. Exactly.

Whereas I've got to know what I'm talking about here.

So, yeah, I love your passion for it though. It does show. It's great.

But it's what Rob and Mica put on their feedback forms that counts.

There is a lot of heavy lifting, heavy loads of work,

and you've got lots of tools to kind of deal with.

You know, it is a very hard labour job.

So I think for physical demand, I'm actually going to score him a nine on this one.

The planting was physically demanding. You use lots of muscles that you've never used before.

But I think the hardest physical bit was trimming the hedges

because it really hurts your shoulders.

I'm going to give physical demands a ten.

It's been three days of hard graft and assessing each other's work.

But now the scores have been totted up.

And it's time to find out who they think has the hardest job...

Oh, God.

..and deserves to win the ?1,000 prize.

How are you feeling? Excited. I am. I'm really excited.

Yeah, I'm excited, yeah.

First, Mica can discover what they thought about her job.

Found the quantity of demands hard to keep up with.

It were me who said that comment.

I felt there were no time to have a pause.

The machines were just constant all the time.

Absolutely. You have to get that quantity out there.

You have to keep up with that speed.

Now, Mica can find out how Rob and Dan scored her job...

So now for the score!

..out of a maximum of 60.

The higher the number, the harder the job.

42.

That's fair. That's good. Yeah? Yeah.

Now it's time for Rob to see what Mica and Dan made

of their day as bingo's show hosts.

So being a bingo caller has so many hidden aspects,

including nerves, pleasing the crowd,

there's a lot of buttons and trying not to mess up.

The feeling... I have never had that feeling before.

The adrenaline. I was shaking, I was smiling.

You know, I didn't know, like, how I felt.

I was just all over the place.

You get off the stage and you feel amazing because you feel like you've accomplished something.

A lot of it is about like being nervous and entertaining.

When you get off the stage, you do feel kind of relieved.

Now for the big one, the score.

Let's do it. I'm really nervous.

Wow. OK. Yeah. So 41.

That is really close, but that is a fair score.

That's one point lower than Mica.

Now Dan can find out if Mica and Rob found his job

as tricky as it seemed.

I'm nervous, actually.

OK.

There are lots of tools that need muscle

and a bit of elbow grease to get the job done.

It's tiring.

Yeah, I think I'll definitely go home tonight with aching muscles.

I'll wake up in the morning probably really stiff.

You are physically working hard all day as well.

So big up to you. Yeah.

You know, when you're out there for a long period of time,

you know, digging and using different machines,

you know, it can be tiring, it is hard work.

Right. So grand finale.

Drum roll, please.

Let's see.

Oooh!

46.

Whoo!

Well deserved. That was very well deserved, yeah.

I'm so glad that I don't have his job. It's so hard.

And, yeah, big up, Dan, he does amazing.

Thank you so much, guys.

Obviously ?1,000 is a lot of money, erm, and, er...

and I'll spend it wisely.

I might even take you out for a beer.

Dan really deserves that. He's got a very hard job.

He really does pride himself on perfection and it shows.

Come here, bring it in. Well done, mate.

It's been a brilliant week. Well done. Well deserved. Thank you, guys.

It's great to have won the ?1,000.

I'm going to treat my team and probably treat the wife as well.

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