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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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

The remaining potters create a stacking pyramid vase centrepiece and a daring sgraffito globe.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

It's an illuminating week as the potters take on lighting sculptures and a surprise challenge.

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

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

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

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.

The remaining potters face an altered reality as they radically alter a coffee set and throw high-footed rice bowls. Whose shapeshifting creations will transport them to the semi-final?

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

The remaining potters take on a sculpting challenge and hark to Stoke-on-Trent with bird bath creations.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

It's the grand finale and the potters create striking chandeliers and faceted bowls.

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.