The Great Pottery Throw Down — Season 4
The ultimate hands-on competition.
About this season
Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.
Episodes (10)
1. Cheese Set & Port Chalices
Aired 10 January 2021 • 57 min
Judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller set the 12 new potters two challenges against the clock: to throw a cheese set and port chalices.
2. 3D Slab-Build & Handmade Bricks
Aired 17 January 2021 • 57 min
It's all about bricks and mortar, as the 11 remaining potters slab-build a 3D building and, in a Throw Down first, judge Rich Miller tasks the potters with hand-making bricks.
3. Fruit Bowls & a Blindfolded Throw Down
Aired 24 January 2021 • 47 min
The remaining potters get fruity when they're challenged to make a bowl full of realistic ceramic fruits, and face a blindfolded throw down with a twist.
4. Naked Raku & a Floral Challenge
Aired 31 January 2021 • 48 min
It's naked raku week and the remaining potters throw, burnish and fire a pair of vases, and are set a floral challenge by guest judge and flower-making expert Rita Floyd.
5. Music Legend Busts & Mini Musical Instruments
Aired 7 February 2021 • 47 min
It's Music Week and the remaining potters sculpt a life-like bust of a music legend, receive a surprise special message from an iconic artist, and make mini musical instruments.
6. Terracotta Cookware & Engraved Tiles
Aired 14 February 2021 • 47 min
It's Terracotta Week in the pottery, and the potters are tasked to make their own range of cookware. Judge Rich Miller sets a second terracotta challenge to engrave tiles.
7. Animal Water Feature & a Strawberry Planter
Aired 21 February 2021 • 47 min
It's Garden Week, and the remaining potters face a green-fingered challenge: to build an animal water feature and throw a strawberry planter for a place in the quarter-finals.
8. Native American Acoma Pottery & an Alabama Ring Bottle
Aired 28 February 2021 • 47 min
It's an all-American-themed quarter-final, as the remaining potters make Acoma pottery fired in cow dung and throw an Alabama ring bottle for a place in the semi-final.
9. A Pedestal Sink & a Chamber Pot
Aired 7 March 2021 • 47 min
It's the semi-final, and the remaining potters produce an elaborate and fully-functional pedestal sink and decorate a chamber pot in Bathroom Week, all for a place in the grand final.
10. The Final: 1920s Art Deco Punch Bowl & Decanters
Aired 14 March 2021 • 48 min
In an art deco-inspired final, the potters make a punch bowl and decanter, before facing the tiniest throwing challenge ever set.