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The Great Pottery Throw Down

The Final: It's the grand finale and the potters create striking chandeliers and faceted bowls. Whose dazzling design will bowl over the judges to be crowned the series winner? (S7 Ep10/10)

Series 7
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It's Bathroom Week, and the semi-finalists take on the infamous toilet challenge. Who'll take the plunge for a place in the final, and who'll be left with that sinking feeling? (S7 Ep9/10)
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It's the quarter-final and the potters make vintage-style water filters fired in their own kilns and throw a coffee filter. Who'll bring the heat with semi-final-worthy filters? (S7 Ep8/10)
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It's an illuminating week as the potters take on lighting sculptures and a surprise challenge. Who'll be beaming with joy and whose time in the spotlight has come to an end? (S7 Ep7/10)
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It's teatime and the potters make novelty teapots and majolica mugs. The bucket of doom returns... will it be a storm in a teacup? And whose brew will get them through? (S7 Ep6/10)
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It's Garden Week and the potters create cascading water features and hedgehog houses. Whose structure will the judges be gushing over, and who'll be hedging their bets? (S7 Ep5/10)
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It's Raku week and the potters create animal busts before taking on guest judge Jacqui Atkin's decorative challenge. Who will the judges go wild for and name potter of the week? (S7 Ep4/10)
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The potters make Staffordshire flatbacks and face a close shave in a surprise challenge. Whose mantlepiece classic will take pride of place, and who'll be left on the shelf? (S7 Ep3/10)
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It's the second week in the pottery and the 11 remaining potters attempt their own take on the popular gluggle jug and face a surprise second challenge - blindfolded! (S7 Ep2/10)
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The battle of the clay returns, as twelve new potters make a roast dinner set. But whose identical side plates will survive the bucket of doom? And who will get roasted and served? (S7 Ep1)
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...The Final: The remaining potters create a pyramid vase centrepiece and a daring sgraffito globe. Who'll be on top of the world when they're crowned the series winner? (S6 Ep10)
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Siobhán McSweeney hosts a fabulously festive dollop of Christmas clay, as James Fleet, Jenny Eclair, Jamie Laing and Sunetra Sarker take on a slab-built scene and mulled wine tumblers.
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It's a bathroom-themed semi-final as the potters make Turkish bath-style sinks and tiles and attempt Moorcroft tube lining. Who will be feeling calm, and will there be water works? (S6 Ep9)
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The potters face an altered reality as they radically alter a coffee set and throw high-footed rice bowls. But whose shapeshifting creations will transport them to the semi-final? (S6 Ep8)
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The remaining potters go wild as they create metallic-effect endangered animal sculptures fired in oil drums, before throwing a thin-necked vase for a place in the quarter-final. (S4 Ep7)
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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. (S4 Ep6)
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The remaining potters head for the roof to create gargoyles and chimney pots for an expert guest judge. Who will be named potter of the week and who'll be cast out of the pottery? (S4 Ep5)
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It's Raku Week, and the potters hope to impress the judges with their hanging planters. Series two semi-finalist Freya Bramble-Carter sets a challenge with a decorative flourish. (S4 Ep4)
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It's Retro Week, and Siobhán McSweeney takes the remaining potters back in time as they make a trio of flying birds and tackle an old-fashioned hot water bottle surprise challenge. (S4 Ep3)
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The 11 remaining potters craft a keepsake box with a disguised lid before facing a surprise blindfold challenge. Who will be potter of the week and who will leave the pottery? (S4 Ep2)
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