The search for a top potter begins with a four-day assignment to make stackable kitchen bowls from lumps of earthenware clay.

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.

The potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity. In the main make, they must make ten identical long-necked vases using the raku technique.

The potters return to Stoke-on-Trent for more tests of their skills and creativity. The six potters must build a five-foot garden sculpture and transform an ordinary chimney pot.

It's semi-final week in Stoke-on-Trent, and just five potters remain. They face their most technically demanding challenge yet - creating a decorative chandelier in bone china.

It is the grand final and the four remaining potters have just three tests left before one is crowned the winner of the Great Pottery Throw Down.

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.

In the throw down challenge this week, king of the wheel Keith demonstrates how to build a double-walled pot.

It's week three and the eight remaining potters must master the art of Japanese-style ceramics.

It is garden week, and the seven remaining potters must make stunning ceramics for the great outdoors.

In week five, the six remaining potters try one of the most exhilarating techniques in ceramics - pit firing.

In the quarter-final, the potters have ten minutes to throw the widest bowl they can while blindfolded.

Comedian Johnny Vegas, a former pupil of Kate Malone, demonstrates how to throw a teapot in just one minute.

In the final, the potters make a pair of identical, fully functioning light features out of porcelain.