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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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The Great Pottery Throw Down: Series 2

Sara Cox

Keith Brymer Jones

Kate Malone

Emma Bridgewater

Sarah Thomson-Woolley

Elliott Gerner

Tim Van Someren

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The Great Pottery Throw Down: Series 2: Episode 1

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BBC Two - The Great Pottery Throw Down, Series 2, Episode 1

The potters must throw the tallest cone they can in just 15 minutes.

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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Ten home potters head to Stoke-on-Trent and compete to become Top Potter.

Sara Cox hosts as ten home potters head to Stoke-on-Trent to create beautiful ceramics. They are hoping to impress the judges and be crowned the new champion of British pottery.

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