The Great Pottery Throw Down

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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