The Worst Episodes of The Great Pottery Throw Down

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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