The Great Pottery Throw Down

The battle of the clay returns, as 12 home potters compete to become champion of the pottery. They take on a birthday tea set challenge, and make handleless jugs.

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?

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. 

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.

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?

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?