Ten home potters return to the home of the British ceramics industry, Stoke-on-Trent, to compete in the second series of the show. Judges, master-potter Keith Brymer Jones and ceramic-artist Kate Malone, will scrutinise their work over three gruelling challenges. For their Main Make, the potters must throw and decorate an identical sixteen-piece dinner set. Then their technical prowess will be tested in the Spot Test, the potters must sponge decorate a coherent design across a pair of jugs. Their work will be assessed by a special guest judge, one of the UK's most popular ceramic designers - Emma Bridgewater. Their final challenge is the Throw Down, where the judges examine the potters' skill at the wheel, and they must throw the tallest cone they can in just 15 minutes. On the final day their dinner service will be removed from the kiln and examined with the best set going on display in the show's gallery but someone will be heading home. Written by Mark_a_Wood markawood@hotmail.co.uk

The 9 remaining contestants face three more challenges set by the judges. They have to throw a double-walled pot, create handles for casserole dishes and make a large clock from slab-rolled clay.

For their next challenge the potters must master the art of Japanese-style ceramics. Among the tasks they will be judged on are making rice bowls, carving an intricate design into a lantern and throwing a sake set.

It's garden week and the remaining 7 potters have to come up with stunning ceramics for the great outdoors. They will have to make a working garden water feature, a dozen roses and a range of flower pots.

The six remaining home potters must make as many goblets as they can in 15 minutes in the Throw Down, for the Spot Test they hand coil a jug to look like a piece of fruit and throw two giant vases for the Main Make.

The quarter-finalists face a Main Make in which they have to hand coil and decorate 4 Russian nesting dolls. For their Spot Test they must carve a pattern on a Greek urn. They must undertake the Throw Down test blindfold.

Four potters remain in the semi-finals. The Main Make is a functioning toilet. Johnny Vegas presents the throw down: five teapots in five minutes. Potters may make whatever they like for the spot test.

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