The Great Pottery Throw Down

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Ten home potters from around the country compete to become Top Potter.

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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Sara Cox

Keith Brymer Jones

Kate Malone

Anna Beattie

Richard Bowron

Richard McKerrow

Elliott Gerner

Karen Richardson

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The nine remaining potters must make a decorative hand basin.

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.

Nine passionate potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity, all aiming to be named top potter. 

This week they face a big main make for the smallest room in the house - a decorative hand basin. The potters are using a technique which is over 15,000 years old, coiling ropes of clay, one on top of the other. But the slightest mistake and their lovingly crafted basins could explode in the heat of the kiln. 

The basins will take seven days to make, so in the meantime judges Kate Malone and Keith Brymer Jones set more tests of the potters' skills. In the spot test the potters must add a surface design to nine plain tiles, a technique which flourished in Stoke-on-Trent's heyday. And in a fiendish throw down, the potters are challenged to throw the tallest cylinder they can while blindfolded.

The Great Pottery Throw Down: Series 1

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