The Great Pottery Throw Down

As the battle of the clay begins, the judges set the 12 hopefuls a salad set challenge, and a surprise second challenge: making identical sangria jugs that must survive the bucket of doom.

It's the second week in the pottery and the remaining potters create a statement mantelpiece clock, and face a surprise blindfolded second challenge.

The ten remaining potters attempt a children's toy Noah's ark and animals, and face a surprise second challenge that sends them potty. Who finds it child's play and who'll be left high and dry?

It's Raku Week and the potters make bulbous vessels with naked raku decoration and in the spot test, the guest judge, Latvian ceramic artist, Laima Laurena sets them a decorative challenge.

Things are getting nostalgic in the pottery, as the remaining potters create a set of shop fronts that fill them with warm, happy memories, before judges Keith and Rich set a surprise second challenge making an ancient Greek form, a psykter vase.

Everyone's feeling peckish in the pottery, as the remaining potters sculpt realistic vegetable lamp bases, and judges Keith and Rich set a double-walled second challenge.