The Great Pottery Throw Down (2015)
Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.
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Episode 1 - Cheese Set & Port Chalices
Release Date: 2021-01-10Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set the 12 new potters two challenges against the clock: to throw a cheese set and port chalices, as the battle of clay kicks off at the wheel
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Episode 2 - 3D Slab-Build & Handmade Bricks
Release Date: 2021-01-17It'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 handmaking bricks
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Episode 3 - Fruit Bowls & a Blindfolded Throw Down
Release Date: 2021-01-24The 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
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Episode 4 - Naked Raku & a Floral Challenge
Release Date: 2021-01-31It'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.
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Episode 5 - Music Legend Busts & Mini Musical Instruments
Release Date: 2021-02-07It'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
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Episode 6 - Terracotta Week
Release Date: 2021-02-14It'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.
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Episode 7 - Garden Week
Release Date: 2021-02-21It'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.
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Episode 8 - Native American Acoma Pottery & an Alabama Ring Bottle
Release Date: 2021-02-28It's 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.
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Episode 9 - A Pedestal Sink & a Chamber Pot
Release Date: 2021-03-07It'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
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Episode 10 - The Final: 1920s Art Deco Punch Bowl & Decanters
Release Date: 2021-03-14In 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?