The Great Pottery Throw Down

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Melanie Sykes hosts as the remaining potters face a multi-coloured slip cast challenge to make two vases, and a blindfolded throwing challenge to throw the widest bowl.

Its Greek Week, and the remaining contestants are challenged to sculpt a nude Greek statue and throw Greek jugs at the wheel. Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Sue Pryke decide who will be potter of the week, and who will be leaving the competition.

Melanie Sykes hosts the quarter-final as the remaining five potters make two ginger jars and face a Scraffito challenge spot test for a place in the semi-final.

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.

Its 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 handmaking bricks

Its 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.

Its 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.

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

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

The 11 remaining potters hand-build a pendulum wall clock and face a surprise blindfold challenge. Who will be crowned potter of the week and who will leave the competition?

Its 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

Its 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

Siobhán McSweeneys 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

The potters make a garden totem sculpture that tells their life story, followed by a regal devils work challenge set by Rich Miller. Who will be crowned the winner of the pottery?

The 11 remaining potters craft a keepsake box with a disguised lid before facing a surprise blindfold challenge. Who will be potter of the week and who will leave the pottery?

Its Raku Week, and the potters hope to impress the judges with their hanging planters. And series two semi-finalist Freya Bramble-Carter sets a challenge with a decorative flourish.

Its 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

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

The remaining potters create a stacking pyramid vase centrepiece and a daring sgraffito globe. But who will be on top of the world when theyre crowned the winner?

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. Who will get roasted and who will get served?

The remaining potters make Staffordshire flatbacks and face a close shave in a surprise challenge. But whose mantlepiece classic will take pride of place, and who will be left on the shelf?

Its Garden Week and the potters create cascading water features and hedgehog houses. Whose structure will the judges be gushing over, and who will be hedging their bets?

Its an illuminating week as the potters take on lighting sculptures and a surprise challenge. Wholl be beaming with joy and whose time in the spotlight has come to an end?

In a bathroom-themed semi-final, the potters take on the infamous toilet challenge. Wholl take the plunge for a place in the final, and wholl be left with that sinking feeling?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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