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The Final: Mini Model Theatres
s09e10 · 2026-03-08
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The Great Pottery Throw Down
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Britain's best home potters compete to become champion of the wheel in Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery. Let the battle of clay commence!
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10 this season · 84 totals09e01 Soup Sets and Galleried Jars 2026-01-04 19:30
Soup Sets and Galleried Jars
The battle of the clay returns, as more hopefuls compete to become champion of the pottery. The potters make soup sets and the bucket of doom is back! Whose galleried jars survive?
s09e02 Bookends and Brickmaking 2026-01-11 19:45
Bookends and Brickmaking
Siobhán McSweeney hosts the pottery challenge, as judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller put the potters through their paces. The remaining potters create a statement pair of book ends and face a surprise brickmaking challenge. Whose book ends will start their next chapter, and who'll be bricking it?
s09e03 Puzzle Jugs and a Surprise Challenge 2026-01-18 19:45
Puzzle Jugs and a Surprise Challenge
Siobhán McSweeney hosts the third round of the pottery challenge. The 10 remaining potters attempt to make a puzzle jug and face a surprise blindfolded second challenge. Whose clay code will be cracked when judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller make the all-important decision?
s09e04 Raku Week and Animal Sculptures 2026-01-25 19:50
Raku Week and Animal Sculptures
Siobhan McSweeney hosts Raku Week and the potters make parent and child animal sculptures, as well as taking on a sculpting spot test set by guest judge and master sculptor Nick Mackman. Whose creations will judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller go wild for, and whose Raku will get them through?
s09e05 Seaside Souvenir Sets & Candlestick Holders 2026-02-01 19:45
Seaside Souvenir Sets & Candlestick Holders
The remaining potters create retro holiday souvenir sets inspired by seaside towns and take on a surprise second challenge making candlestick holders. Who will make waves, and who can hold onto a place in the next round?
s09e06 Terracotta Tagines 2026-02-08 19:50
Terracotta Tagines
Everyone's feeling peckish in the pottery as the seven remaining potters make terracotta tagines. Guest judge Gabriel Nichols sets a big throw as the second challenge. Siobhán McSweeney hosts, as judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller put the potters through their paces.
s09e07 Floral Posies and Vases 2026-02-15 19:50
Floral Posies and Vases
The remaining potters create floral posies and vases, before guest judge Jo Taylor sets a surprise embellishing second challenge. Who'll bloom into the next round, and whose posy isn't all rosy?
s09e08 Body Part Pots and Sculptures 2026-02-22 19:45
Body Part Pots and Sculptures
It's the quarter-final and the remaining potters make self-sculptures of their bodies in motion to fire in brick kilns that they've built themselves. Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set a surprise second challenge concentrating on pot body parts. Whose fired-up figures will carve them out a place in the semi-final?
s09e09 Mosaics and Water Fountains 2026-03-01 19:45
Mosaics and Water Fountains
Siobhán McSweeney hosts the semi-final, where the four remaining potters make wall-mounted water fountains inspired by Rome's Trevi Fountain and take on guest judge and ceramic artist Cleo Mussi's surprise mosaic challenge. Whose fountain will make a splash and see them through to the final, and whose mosaic will leave them picking up the pieces?
s09e10 The Final: Mini Model Theatres 2026-03-08 21:00
The Final: Mini Model Theatres
Siobhán McSweeney and judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller present the final, where the three remaining potters create miniature model theatres and take on a tricky throwing technique in their last surprise second challenge. Whose final curtain call will crown them as champion?