The Great Pottery Throw Down — Season 6
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. Birthday Tea Set and Handleless Jug
5.0Aired 8 January 2023 • 57 min
The potters take on a birthday tea set challenge, and a surprise second challenge that sees them making handleless milk jugs that must survive the bucket of doom.
2. Keepsake Box and Blindfold Challenge
7.0Aired 15 January 2023 • 57 min
The 11 remaining potters craft a keepsake box with a disguised lid before facing a surprise blindfold challenge.
3. Trio of Birds and Hot Water Bottle Challenge
2.0Aired 22 January 2023 • 56 min
It's Retro Week, and the remaining potters are taken back in time as they make a trio of flying birds and tackle an old-fashioned hot water bottle surprise challenge.
4. Hanging Planters and a Decorative Challenge
6.0Aired 29 January 2023 • 56 min
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.
5. Gargoyles and Chimney Pots
5.0Aired 5 February 2023 • 56 min
The remaining potters head for the roof to create gargoyles and chimney pots for expert guest judge Gabriel Nichols.
6. Embossed Table Light and Decadent Design Skills
6.0Aired 12 February 2023 • 57 min
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.
7. Endangered Animal Sculptures and a Tall Vase
6.0Aired 19 February 2023 • 56 min
The six remaining potters go wild as they create metallic-effect endangered animal sculptures fired in oil drums, before throwing a tall, thin-necked vase for a place in the quarter-final.
8. Abstract Coffee Set and Rice Bowls
5.0Aired 26 February 2023 • 57 min
The remaining potters face an altered reality as they radically alter a coffee set and throw high-footed rice bowls. Whose shapeshifting creations will transport them to the semi-final?
9. Turkish Bath Sinks and Moorcroft Ginger Jar
4.0Aired 5 March 2023 • 56 min
It's a bathroom-themed semi-final as the potters make Turkish bath-style sinks and tiles and attempt Moorcroft tube lining.
10. The Final: Pyramid Vase and Sgraffito Globe
5.0Aired 12 March 2023 • 57 min
The remaining potters create a stacking pyramid vase centrepiece and a daring sgraffito globe.