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The Great Pottery Throw Down:

Season 9

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The Great Pottery Throw Down

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Twelve more home potters compete to become champion of the pottery

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Episode 4: Raku Week and Animal Sculptures

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Siobhan McSweeney hosts Raku Week and the potters make parent and child animal sculptures, as well as taking on a sculpting spot test set by guest judge and master sculptor Nick Mackman. Whose creations will judges Keith Brymer Jones and Rich Miller go wild for, and whose Raku will get them through?

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Jane Rackham

Viewers who remember the soporific BBC’s Potter’s Wheel interlude may imagine that pottery is a gentle, calm art. But Raku firing — a technique where ceramics are taken from the kiln while they are still red-hot — can be dangerously volatile, as the contestants discover this week when they get, ahem, fired up making parent-and-child animal sculptures. Adding to the pressure, sculptor Nick Mackman, who is famous for her realistic animal figurines, has been recruited as a guest judge.

While Siobhán McSweeney hates the smell of the burning feathers, leaves and sawdust that give Raku pieces their colour and patterns, Rich Miller enjoys himself dressing up in silly costumes.

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2026-01-25

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rolenamePresenterSiobhán McSweeneyJudgeKeith Brymer JonesJudgeRich MillerJudgeNick MackmanSeries directorEmma ReynoldsSeries producerJennifer MorrisonExecutive producerLuke Byrne

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