Week 8 certainly threw the viewers a curve ball, when two potters left the show for failing to stick to the brief. Sal and Alon both made beautiful, personal pieces, but didn’t stick closely enough to the criteria required to…
Week 7, and with the last episode’s terracotta nightmare behind them, the potters were ready for Garden Week. The main challenge was an animal water feature. It had to be 70-80cm tall, with a lifelike animal as the focal point.…
Week six and ‘Terrifying Trial by Terracotta’ sums it up. The challenge was to make a chicken brick, a tagine and a lidded casserole dish. All large, heavy pieces that would take a long time to dry. Chicken bricks seem…
Week five on the Throw Down was ‘Music Week’, with the main build being life-like busts of music legends Tom Jones, Dolly Parton – who sent the potters a video message – Dame Shirley Bassey, Ozzy Osbourne and Ed Sheeran.…
Well, the good news is that no-one was sent home because the judges decided that a seven-day interruption to the filming schedule meant it wouldn’t be fair. The potters were pushed hard though, having to make bone china flowers in…
Susan was the third potter to leave the Throw Down, after a week of contrasts. Very intricate fruit – needing an eye for detail– and blindfolded throwing challenged the potters at both ends of the scale. Was it liberating…
Week two in the house.. oh, that’s the wrong show! In the most recent – rather controversial, perhaps – episode of the Throw Down, Irina was the second to leave. Discover more about Irina, and her thoughts on being involved…
In our next issue, we have a bumper 18 pages of content on the show! (Pic: Channel 4) Read an exclusive in-depth interview with judge Keith Brymer Jones (yes, he of the copious tears!), discover behind-the-scenes details – and…
Oh Ara, we feel for you! In episode one of the Throw Down, after a promising start, a glaze mishap seemed to spell the end for Ara and he was the first contestant to hear the words “I’m so sorry…”…
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