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.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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