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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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. In the main make, they must make ten identical long-necked vases using the raku technique.

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.

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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