Name: The Great Pottery Throw Down
Genre: Reality
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Keith Brymer Jones, Richard Miller, Siobhán McSweeney, Sara Cox, Kate Olivia Malone

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Keith Brymer Jones

Richard Miller

Siobhán McSweeney

Sara Cox

Kate Olivia Malone

Melanie Sykes

Sue Pryke

Ellie Taylor

Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.

The Great Pottery Throw Down

BBC Two's Great Pottery Throw Down trailer

The search for a top potter begins with a four-day assignment to make stackable kitchen bowls from lumps of earthenware clay.

Episode 1

Nine potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity, all aiming to be named top potter. This week they must make a decorative hand basin.

Episode 2

The potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity. In the main make, they must make ten identical long-necked vases using the raku technique.

Episode 3

The potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity. The six potters must build a five-foot garden sculpture and transform an ordinary chimney pot.

Episode 4

It's semi-final week in Stoke-on-Trent, and just five potters remain. They face their most technically demanding challenge yet - creating a decorative chandelier in bone china.

Episode 5

It is the grand final and the four remaining potters have just three tests left before one is crowned the winner of the Great Pottery Throw Down.

Episode 6

Ten home potters compete to become the new champion of British pottery. They must test their technical prowess in front of a special guest judge, ceramic designer Emma Bridgewater.

In the throw down challenge this week, king of the wheel Keith demonstrates how to build a double-walled pot.

It's week three and the eight remaining potters must master the art of Japanese-style ceramics.

It is garden week, and the seven remaining potters must make stunning ceramics for the great outdoors.

In week five, the six remaining potters try one of the most exhilarating techniques in ceramics - pit firing.

In the quarter-final, the potters have ten minutes to throw the widest bowl they can while blindfolded.

Comedian Johnny Vegas, a former pupil of Kate Malone, demonstrates how to throw a teapot in just one minute.

Episode 7

In the final, the potters make a pair of identical, fully functioning light features out of porcelain.

Episode 8

Melanie Sykes hosts as 12 amateur potters compete against one another, with judges Keith Brymer Jones and Sue Pryke asking the contenders to throw a breakfast set and then egg cups.

Breakfast Set & Egg Cups

The eleven remaining potters are tasked with hand-building an elaborate chess set and throwing miniature vases at the wheel.

Chess Set & Mini Vases

The remaining potters tackle raku firing, hand-build two animal figurines and face the tricky ceramic technique of nerikomi.

Raku & Animal Figurines

The potters face a multi-coloured slip cast challenge to make two vases, and a blindfolded throwing challenge to throw the widest bowl.

Multi-Coloured Slip Cast & Blindfolded Throwing

The eight remaining potters are challenged to build a pair of matching lamp bases. Guest judge Emma Bridgewater drops in to set an emotional ceramic challenge for the contestants.

Matching Lamp Bases & a Ceramic Challenge

It's Greek Week, and the remaining contestants are challenged to sculpt a nude Greek statue and throw Greek jugs at the wheel.

Nude Greek Statues & Greek Jugs

The six remaining potters are challenged to produce handmade tiles for a fireplace and to throw a chimney for a place in the quarter-final.

Handmade Tiles & a Chimney

The remaining five potters make two ginger jars and face a Scraffito challenge spot test for a place in the semi-final.

Ginger Jars & a Scraffito Challenge

The potters face their biggest challenge yet, to produce a fully functioning toilet for a place in the final.

Victorian Week & a Fully Functioning Toilet

Melanie Sykes hosts the grand finale as the three potters make a quirky tea set and face a throwing challenge to impress the judges and be crowned the winner.

The Final: Quirky Tea Set & a Throwing Challenge

Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set the 12 new potters two challenges against the clock: to throw a cheese set and port chalices.

Cheese Set & Port Chalices

It's all about bricks and mortar, as the 11 remaining potters slab-build a 3D building and, in a Throw Down first, judge Rich Miller tasks the potters with hand-making bricks.

3D Slab-Build & Handmade Bricks

The remaining potters get fruity when they're challenged to make a bowl full of realistic ceramic fruits, and face a blindfolded throw down with a twist.

Fruit Bowls & a Blindfolded Throw Down

It's naked raku week and the remaining potters throw, burnish and fire a pair of vases, and are set a floral challenge by guest judge and flower-making expert Rita Floyd.

Naked Raku & a Floral Challenge

It's Music Week and the remaining potters sculpt a life-like bust of a music legend, receive a surprise special message from an iconic artist, and make mini musical instruments.

Music Legend Busts & Mini Musical Instruments

It's Terracotta Week in the pottery, and the potters are tasked to make their own range of cookware. Judge Rich Miller sets a second terracotta challenge to engrave tiles.

Terracotta Cookware & Engraved Tiles

It's Garden Week, and the remaining potters face a green-fingered challenge: to build an animal water feature and throw a strawberry planter for a place in the quarter-finals.

Animal Water Feature & a Strawberry Planter

It's an all-American-themed quarter-final, as the remaining potters make Acoma pottery fired in cow dung and throw an Alabama ring bottle for a place in the semi-final.

Native American Acoma Pottery & an Alabama Ring Bottle

It's the semi-final, and the remaining potters produce an elaborate and fully-functional pedestal sink and decorate a chamber pot in Bathroom Week, all for a place in the grand final.

A Pedestal Sink & a Chamber Pot

In an art deco-inspired final, the potters make a punch bowl and decanter, before facing the tiniest throwing challenge ever set.

The Final: 1920s Art Deco Punch Bowl & Decanters

Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set the 12 brand-new potters two challenges: to throw a children's crockery set and ceramic milk bottles.

Crockery Set and Ceramic Milk Bottles

The 11 remaining potters hand-build a pendulum wall clock and face a surprise blindfold challenge.

Pendulum Wall Clock

The remaining potters make inanimate objects and judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller pay tribute to the pottery hometown of Stoke, as they set a bottle kiln challenge.

Inanimate Objects and a Bottle Kiln Challenge

It's Raku week and the remaining potters throw a Japanese-inspired tea set, before guest judge and social media sensation Florian Gadsby sets them a handle pulling challenge.

Japanese Tea Set and a Handle Pulling Challenge

It's Garden Week and the eight remaining potters create a trio of character gnomes, before guest judge Adam Keeling sets them the task of making a sea kale forcer.

Character Gnomes and a Sea Kale Forcer

It's back to the Swinging Sixties, as the potters create a psychedelic pair of highly decorative glazed vessels, before guest judge Orla Kiely tests their repeating-pattern skills.

1960s Glazed Vessels and Repeating Patterns

It's Wildlife Week and the potters hand-build a table lamp, go wild in a Throw Down first, and get a surprise visit from a familiar face.

Wildlife Week and Hand-Built Table Lamps

Siobhán McSweeney's back, as the remaining potters create a self-sculpture, build their own sawdust kilns and make candlesticks under pressure, for a place in the semi-final.

Self-Sculpture, Sawdust Kilns and Candlesticks

It's the semi-final and the potters are left feeling flushed as they make fully functional urinals, before recreating the iconic Wedgwood Jasperware, for a place in the final.

Urinals and Wedgwood Jasperware

The potters make a garden totem sculpture that tells their life story, followed by a regal devil's work challenge set by Rich Miller, before the winner is crowned.

The Final: Garden Totem Sculpture and a Devil's Work Challenge

The potters take on a birthday tea set challenge, and a surprise second challenge that sees them making handleless milk jugs that must survive the bucket of doom.

Birthday Tea Set and Handleless Jug

The 11 remaining potters craft a keepsake box with a disguised lid before facing a surprise blindfold challenge.

Keepsake Box and Blindfold Challenge

It's Retro Week, and the remaining potters are taken back in time as they make a trio of flying birds and tackle an old-fashioned hot water bottle surprise challenge.

Trio of Birds and Hot Water Bottle Challenge

It's Raku Week, and the potters hope to impress the judges with their hanging planters. Series two semi-finalist Freya Bramble-Carter sets a challenge with a decorative flourish.

Hanging Planters and a Decorative Challenge

The remaining potters head for the roof to create gargoyles and chimney pots for expert guest judge Gabriel Nichols.

Gargoyles and Chimney Pots

It's an illuminating week, as the potters make an embossed table light, before guest judge, fashion and lifestyle designer Henry Holland, really tests their decadent design skills.

Embossed Table Light and Decadent Design Skills

The six remaining potters go wild as they create metallic-effect endangered animal sculptures fired in oil drums, before throwing a tall, thin-necked vase for a place in the quarter-final.

Endangered Animal Sculptures and a Tall Vase

The remaining potters face an altered reality as they radically alter a coffee set and throw high-footed rice bowls. Whose shapeshifting creations will transport them to the semi-final?

Abstract Coffee Set and Rice Bowls

It's a bathroom-themed semi-final as the potters make Turkish bath-style sinks and tiles and attempt Moorcroft tube lining.

Turkish Bath Sinks and Moorcroft Ginger Jar

The remaining potters create a stacking pyramid vase centrepiece and a daring sgraffito globe.

The Final: Pyramid Vase and Sgraffito Globe

As the battle of clay kicks off at the wheel, the potters make a roast dinner set and identical side plates that must survive the bucket of doom.

Roast Dinner Set and Identical Side Plates

The remaining potters attempt their own take on the popular gluggle jug and face a surprise blindfold challenge.

Gluggle Jugs and a Surprise Blindfold Challenge

The remaining potters make Staffordshire flatbacks and face a close shave in a surprise challenge.

Staffordshire Flatbacks and a Surprise Challenge

It's Raku week and the potters create animal busts before taking on guest judge Jacqui Atkin's decorative challenge.

Raku Week and Animal Busts

It's Garden Week and the potters create cascading water features and hedgehog houses.

Water Features and Hedgehog Houses

It's teatime and the potters make novelty teapots and majolica decorated mugs. Plus, it's the return of the bucket of doom.

Novelty Teapots and Majolica Mugs

It's an illuminating week as the potters take on lighting sculptures and a surprise challenge.

Illuminating Light Sculptures

It's the quarter-final and the potters make vintage-style water filters fired in their own oil drum kilns and throw a coffee filter.

Vintage Water Filters and a Coffee Filter

In a bathroom-themed semi-final, the potters take on the infamous toilet challenge.

Bathroom Week

It's the grand finale and the potters create striking chandeliers and faceted bowls.

The Final: Chandeliers and Faceted Bowls

As the battle of clay begins, the hopefuls take on a salad set challenge and make identical sangria jugs that must survive the bucket of doom.

A Salad Set and Sangria Jugs

The potters create a statement mantelpiece clock, and face a surprise blindfolded second challenge.

Mantlepiece Clock and Blindfold Challenge

The remaining potters attempt a toy Noah's ark and animals, and a surprise second challenge sends them potty.

Noah's Ark and Potties

It's Raku week and the potters take on bulbous vessels and guest judge Laima Laurena's decorative challenge.

Raku Vessels and a Decorative Challenge

The potters create shop fronts filled with memories and ancient Greek psykter vases.

Shop Fronts and Greek Psykter Vases

The remaining potters sculpt realistic vegetable lamp bases and take on a double-walled challenge.

Vegetable Lamps and a Double-Walled Challenge

The remaining potters take on a sculpting challenge and hark to Stoke-on-Trent with bird bath creations.

Bird Baths and a Sculpting Challenge

It's the quarter-final and the potters take on double gourd vases and old-fashioned posset pots.

Double Gourd Vases and Posset Pots

Our semi-finalists stare into the mouth of hell as they create Hellmouth fireplaces, and take on a transferware challenge.

Hellmouth Fireplaces

Our three finalists create statement Greek amphoras and take on some extreme throwing in their last surprise challenge.

The Final: Statement Greek Amphoras

Soup Sets and Galleried Jars

The potters create a statement pair of bookends and face some surprise brickmaking.

Bookends and Brickmaking

The potters make a puzzle jug and face a surprise blindfolded second challenge.

Puzzle Jugs and a Surprise Challenge

It's Raku Week! The potters make animal sculptures and guest judge Nick Mackman sets a sculpting spot test.

Raku Week and Animal Sculptures

The remaining potters create holiday souvenir sets inspired by seaside towns, and candlestick holders.

Seaside Souvenir Sets and Candlestick Holders

The remaining potters make terracotta tagines, and guest judge Gabriel Nichols throws down a big challenge.

Terracotta Tagines

The remaining potters create floral posies and vases, and take on a surprise embellishing challenge.

Floral Posies and Vases

The potters make body part pots and sculptures of their bodies in motion, fired in brick kilns that they build themselves.

Body Part Pots and Sculptures

It's the semi-final and the potters make mosaics and water fountains inspired by Rome's Trevi Fountain.

Mosaics and Water Fountains

The finalists create mini model theatres and tackle a tricky throwing technique.

Mini Model Theatres

James Fleet, Jenny Eclair, Jamie Laing and Sunetra Sarker take to the wheel to make a slab-built illuminated Christmas scene, and see who can throw the most mulled wine tumblers.

The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2022

Hugh Dennis, Sophie Duker, Alice Levine and Joe Swash take on some festive firing as they hand-build a Christmas birdhouse.

The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2023

This year, the celebrity contestants joining the judges at Gladstone Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent are comedian Babatunde Aleshe, actor Tom Rosenthal, TV presenter Rachel Riley and singer and actor Martin Kemp.

The Festive Pottery Throw Down 2024

Amber Gill, Colin Murray, Sarah Hadland and Tim Vine brave the Christmas clay. Whose North Pole scene leaves them out in the cold and who sleighs with the most reindeer bowls?

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