Episode 1
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.
For the new series of The Great Pottery Throw Down, hosted by Sara Cox, ten home potters return to Stoke-on-Trent and compete to become the new champion of British pottery.
The judges, master-potter Keith Brymer Jones and ceramic-artist Kate Malone scrutinise their work over three gruelling challenges. For their Main Make, the potters throw and decorate an identical sixteen-piece dinner set.
Testing their technical prowess in the Spot Test, the potters must sponge decorate a coherent design across a pair of jugs. Hardly easy at the best of times, they must also do it in front of a special guest judge, one of the UK's most popular ceramic designers - Emma Bridgewater.
Their final challenge is the Throw Down, where the judges examine the potters' skill at the wheel, and they must throw the tallest cone they can in just 15 minutes.
On the final day, kiln man Rich Miller will remove the potters' dinner sets from the flames. The heat is on as they all want to win Pot of the Week and get their ceramics into The Great Pottery Throw Down gallery. But whose dinnerware will be the first to be displayed and who will be leaving?
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Clips
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Spot test sponge decorating
Duration: 00:28
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Wiring off
Duration: 00:49
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Main make countdown
Duration: 01:07
Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:01
The Creation
Making Time
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00:01
The Fairey Band
Strings of Life
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00:02
Cream
Strange Brew聽
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00:04
Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Bootleg
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00:05
The Spencer Davis Group
Keep On Running
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00:10
The Dave Clark Five
Come Home
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00:12
Sandy Nelson
Drums A Go Go
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00:15
The Spencer Davis Group
I'm A Man
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00:18
The Fairey Band
Voodoo Ray
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00:19
The Fireballs
Ahhh Soul
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00:21
Marquis of Kensington
Flash
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00:29
The Fairey Band
A Day In The Life / Can You Party? (Medley)
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00:30
Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Time Is Tight
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00:40
Booker T. & The M.G.'s
Green Onions
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00:42
Sandy Nelson
Boss Beat
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00:47
Dusty Springfield
(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher
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00:56
The Fairey Band
Pacific 202
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00:57
Small Faces
Almost Grown
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Sara Cox |
Judge | Keith Brymer Jones |
Judge | Kate Malone |
Judge | Emma Bridgewater |
Executive Producer | Sarah Thomson-Woolley |
Series Producer | Elliott Gerner |
Director | Tim Van Someren |
Production Company | Love Productions |