A new BBC show will aim to do for pottery what The Great British Bake Off did for homemade cakes and pastries.
The Great Pottery Throw Down is coming to BBC2 Great Pottery Thrown Down – starting 9pm Tuesday 3 November), and aims to do for making, what Bake Off did for baking.
Take a sneak peak at the new show, filmed at the world famous Middleport Pottery in Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Created by Love Productions, the company behind The Great British Bake Off, the search for Britain’s leading amateur potter will be led by Sara Cox, the Radio 2 DJ and former “laddette”, assisted by two of the British pottery scene’s most renowned potters, Keith Brymer-Jones and Kate Malone.
Ten potters will be set tasks testing their skills, and patience, at the wheel and their ability to master different techniques.
The potters will produce a piece from slab of clay to “glazed glory”, with every episode culminating in the reveal of the Main Make which the potters present straight from their kiln for judging.
The BBC warned: “Anything can go wrong in the kiln. The potters who fail to impress with their clay will leave the pottery studio until the final when one person proves themselves to be master of the wheel. It’s messy, it’s hot, it’s pottery.”
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