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It's the quarterfinals
and our five remaining potters

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have entered an altered reality

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because, this week,
they are throwing,

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and radically altering,
a coffee set.

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Considering I've just said
"altered reality",

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this all seems a bit normal,
doesn't it?

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Oh, more coffee? Yes, please.

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Last time...
Time for a quick Brazilian.

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..the potters went wild
with metallic animal sculptures...

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I'm channelling
my inner sloth today.

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..and threw long-necked vases.

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I think I'm getting
carried away now.

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Jon's cantilever pangolin won him
his second Potter of the Week.

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You've emulated that
shell-like quality so beautifully.

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But while Helen's penguin
fell short...

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I think the penguin's probably about
a third of its original size.

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..Derek's ferret went large...

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Wow! It's the Godzilla of ferrets.

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..and he became the latest potter
to leave the competition.

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I'll go away from here with some of
the greatest memories of all.

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This time... Arrgh!

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..our potters face
their toughest challenge so far...

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Why did I choose to do this?
Ambition.

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..testing everything
they thought they knew.

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I'll be questioning whether
I can make this coffee set.

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The infamous bucket of doom
makes an appearance.

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It's that one that's pants, though.

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But who will stay
to face the semifinals...

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Out of all the potters,
yours is the best idea.

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..and who will be going home...
Don't panic! ..and back to reality?

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Whoa! Oh, my God!

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It's the quarterfinal,
and our remaining potters are back,

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bright-eyed, bushy-tailed,

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and ready to face
their toughest challenge yet.

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Yay! Quarterfinals!
Can't believe it.

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Yeah, I'm really pleased to be here.

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It feels like, last week,
I was gone down a gear.

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This week, I feel like
I've got to go up two gears.

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I have prepared aspects
of my coffee set.

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I've not necessarily made
the whole thing,

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so I'm playing a bit of a gamble

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and I don't know
how it's going to turn out.

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Oh, the stakes are really high.
I've really got to up my game.

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Hello, potters,
and welcome to the quarterfinals.

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Yay!

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For your Main Make challenge
this week,

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the judges would like you
to throw and alter a coffee set

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that will consist of a coffee pot
with a fitted lid,

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two matching morning coffee cups
and saucers,

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a cream jug,
and a sugar bowl with a fitted lid.

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Now, that was very easy to say,
but I'm sure it's not easy to make.

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We're looking for
a stunning statement coffee set

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based on abstract art.

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Now, this is the quarterfinal,
so really challenge yourself.

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Your coffee set should be bold,
unusual, exciting and provocative.

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Really push the boundaries
of what's possible with that clay,

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but make sure it's still functional.

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Now, these sets are to be thrown,
but radically altered,

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so really think about
straight lines,

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looping curves, challenging shapes.

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Nothing about your coffee set
wants to be vanilla.

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It wants to be the punk
of the hot beverage world.

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Wow! The punk of the beverage world.

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You have six hours to make
and refine your abstract coffee set,

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and your time starts now.

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Potters, get potting.

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Right, then...

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The potters have their work cut out.

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They have six hours to make
a seven-piece coffee set... Oh!

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..which, once dried leather-hard,
must then be cut,

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twisted or contorted
into radically altered shapes.

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There's lots to do.
I'm definitely aware

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that I need to make sure
I keep the pace up.

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I don't think I've got time,
really, for mishaps.

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Giving it all I've got.

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It's the quarterfinals.
You can't lay back any more.

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So, quarterfinals. Yes. And we're
really upping the ante, aren't we?

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Yeah, cos we've asked
our potters to make

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a radically altered
abstract coffee set.

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Yeah, not much, is it?

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They can really push the boundaries
of what's possible.

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Big, extravagant handles
that kind of almost look like

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they shouldn't be made out of clay
are achievable,

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but they can be risky,
so it just depends how brave,

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how ambitious they are
with the forms.

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I really want to look at
what they've made

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and think, "How did they make that?
How did they put that together?"

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I mean, this is fantastic, isn't it?

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You wouldn't necessarily think that
that was the lid. No.

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It feels like a continuation
of the design.

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They want to feel like
they're pieces of art,

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but it's really important
that they remain functional.

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Like, these are lovely,

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and despite the fact that
it's very angular,

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they feel beautiful in the hand.

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This is the quarterfinals.
Everything to play for.

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It's going to be interesting
to see how brave our potters get.

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To leave enough time
to radically alter their set,

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all our potters are beginning
by throwing their coffee pot.

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Need to be careful about the timing.
That's why I'm starting with

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the big things,
cos they'll take longer to dry,

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and also, probably,
they're more difficult,

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so, if it goes wrong,
I can do it again.

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I'll be questioning whether
I can make this coffee set

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because, you know,
I haven't practised it,

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but I'm just going
to really enjoy myself today.

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Hello, Helen. Hello.

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So, what are you going
to make us this week, Helen?

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So, I was a teenager in the sort of
late '60s, early '70s... Yeah.

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..so I'm going for
basically a homage

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to the fashions of the time -
Mary Quant, Biba, Vivienne Westwood.

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Lots of colour, lots of distortion.
So, this is your coffee pot, is it?

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Yeah, yeah. Right.
I like the way you're using

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the kind of human attributes,

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you know, that stance.
Kind of like the way you're moving?

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Well, it's... "I'm a little teapot."
Yeah, exactly! Yeah, definitely.

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Helen's colourful, riotous ode
to the fashion of the '60s

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will feature beaded necklaces
on the saucers

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and a hat and gloves
on the sugar bowl,

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all with curvy shapes taken
straight from the dance floor.

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We went to the youth clubs.

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We'd all do this sort of dance -
well, the girls would do the dance -

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the, like, jiving dance,
and we'd look really cool, you know?

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What's the jiving dance?

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You do like that and you jive,
but you've got to look up,

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and nonchalant like that.
Reversing. Yeah, yeah.

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And I can remember
being at this dance

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and I really fancied this guy,

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and I was sort of doing the dance
and then I sort of leant on

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this pile of tubular steel chairs,

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and it was one of those moments
where you just roll backwards and...

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Yeah. Comedy classic. Never went out
with him. Never went out with him.

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Never heard of him again?
Never heard of him again.

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Keep the noise down!
We're trying to work here!

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I'll see you later.

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Peace, man.

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If I can get the coffee pot made,
that'll be great,

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but height-wise,
I've got a long way to go.

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To ensure their pieces
are robust enough to be altered,

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the potters must throw
with precision.

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I think the trickiest part
is throwing the initial forms.

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There's definitely more
to think about

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because I've just thrown this
and it's...

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I'm not sure if it's a bit thin.

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So, if it is,
I'll have to do it again.

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The coffee pot,
I'm almost there in terms of height,

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but you can see there's
a bit of a lump going on here,

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so I need to recover this quickly
before I lose it.

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Hi, Jon. Hello, Jon.
How are you today? All right, yes.

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So, you're reigning
Potter of the Week.

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Yeah, I know. Pressure's on now,
it feels. Yeah, goodness!

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Tell us about your design.
So, yes, I've worked with a few

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sort of post-modern architects

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and so it's taken ideas from
post-modern architecture -

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kind of lots of leaning out,
kind of challenging gravity,

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not touching the ground
as much as you'd normally expect.

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Which is often quite difficult
to do with clay

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because you rely on those
contact points to support the form.

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Yeah. So, how are you
kind of going to create...?

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So, they're all cylinders.
They'll have these thrown cones

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on the base which create
that sort of lightness

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and lift it off of the surface.

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Jon's carefully engineered
coffee set

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will be decorated
in bright block colours

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to accentuate the bold,
floating forms.

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However,
with 14 cylinder legs to make,

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he'll need all the help
he can muster.

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So, I'm now onto the cones.

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This is my new tool
that I've never used before,

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and now I know why.

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Is it a help or a hindrance?

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It doesn't seem to have worked
very well so far, so, you know...

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I don't really know
what it's meant to be doing.

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Well, it's supposed to be giving me
a constant looking...

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Look at that. It's just
making it go really weird.

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Yeah, but I suppose
that's the whole point of this make,

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is to make stuff look weird.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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While Jon's relying on
sturdy cylinders

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to support his coffee set...

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So, I'm throwing my mugs upside down

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cos then I'm going
to make a hole like that...

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..and you'll be drinking like that.

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..Caitlin's taking
an even bigger risk.

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That's the actual cup itself? Yeah.

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And this is the handle and base?

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Yeah. Right.

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Like a teething ring.
Yes, like a teething ring.

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These are sort of defying gravity,
so we'll see how they work.

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Which is always great in ceramics...

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Exactly. ..you know,
things that defy gravity.

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Caitlin's gravity-defying coffee set

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involves a series
of doughnut handles

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attached to round,
voluminous shapes,

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which will be decorated
in primary colours,

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but stabilising each element
will be a challenge.

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It's a really lovely idea.

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You know, we've asked you
to form these

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into different shapes
and radically change them. Yeah.

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But they still need to be
fairly practical. Yeah, exactly.

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So, I'm trying to balance that
between them.

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Hopefully, it pulls off. Fingers
crossed you pull it off. Yeah.

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Yeah, well, best of luck.

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So, I'm doing
my first cup now.

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I cut this old credit card out
this morning

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to try and push the shapes in.

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I'm not really sure
how that's going to work.

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I've got to make 12 cones. Just got
to keep going and motoring on.

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I hope to get them all thrown.
You can do it, Jon.

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Come on! Come on!

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Potters, the drying room is open!

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Rose, if you please.

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Rose, cup of tea, please.

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Yeah, I...I don't like
this altered reality at all.

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You make the cup of tea.

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The drying room is open, potters!
The drying room is open.

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Oh, big relief!

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Love it. Once our potters
have thrown their pieces,

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they must be dried to leather-hard
before they can begin to alter them.

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This one's gone really wrong.
I might just do another one.

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And for Lois, making sure her pieces
have enough time to dry is crucial.

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I'm cutting most of this stuff
in half,

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which seems fairly radical.

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If we try and alter things
when they're too wet,

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then they'll just wobble about
and just be basically useless.

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Lois's coffee set has been inspired
by her ceramic journey so far

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and the marvellous
Gladstone Pottery.

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Featuring bulbous shapes,
concertinaed surfaces

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and vessels cut in half,
it will be decorated in bold colours

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such as forest green
and salmon pink.

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And this area here,
is it your handle or something?

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That is the spout. Oh, sorry.

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So, I'm going to cut, actually,
this whole area out. OK. OK.

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And then I'm cutting the back off
of these so they'll sit together.

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00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:22,240
And then the cups and saucers
are similar. Right.

239
00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,800
I'm going to cut the back off,
cut some holes out,

240
00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,160
add some slabs...
Goodness! ..on the back.

241
00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,200
Just a small list of things to do.

242
00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:31,840
Doughnuts - tick.

243
00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:36,320
If creating a seven-piece coffee set
wasn't difficult enough...

244
00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:38,000
The cones and the cups are done.

245
00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:40,160
Saucers are relatively simple
at this stage.

246
00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,440
I've got the jug
and the sugar bowl to go,

247
00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,400
but I've got to get a move on
cos I am a little bit behind now.

248
00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,480
..James is making this challenge
twice as hard.

249
00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,920
Each item I'm making, I'm going
to make two exact same ones,

250
00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,560
and the second one's going to be
cannibalised into the first one.

251
00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:55,920
I'm going to cut all the way down
the vertical of each piece

252
00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:58,360
and then put it back together
so it's got a little step in it.

253
00:11:58,400 --> 00:12:01,160
Wow! So, all of it's going to be cut
down here? Yeah, it is. Yeah.

254
00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:02,520
Have you got any concerns about

255
00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:05,120
kind of cutting away
all of your hard work

256
00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,400
and completely sort of then
trying to reassemble it,

257
00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,480
all of those joins?
As long as I put them together

258
00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:12,280
at the same consistency,
it should be fine.

259
00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,680
Going over the joins and
just really smudging it together,

260
00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:15,920
it can't leak.

261
00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:19,680
Each piece in James's
painstakingly-made coffee set

262
00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,600
will be individually spliced
and radically altered

263
00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:25,880
to include a step
inspired by ballroom dancing.

264
00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:27,160
And why dance, then?

265
00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:29,760
My parents, that's how they met -
ballroom dancing, yeah.

266
00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,240
Oh, I see. Oh, OK.

267
00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,240
And do you do it?
I was going to say, do you do it?

268
00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:35,600
No, I was young, I was stupid.

269
00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:37,560
You could have been learning...
I know, yeah.

270
00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,120
..all these amazing dances.
You'd be on a different show then,

271
00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:44,040
and we wouldn't have you here,
so thank you, past you.

272
00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,920
Potters, you're halfway through.

273
00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:52,160
That's three hours left
to make your altered coffee sets.

274
00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:55,600
OK!

275
00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:58,320
This is scary.

276
00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:02,120
Last bit of clay. Got no clay left.

277
00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:05,680
What do you have left to do?
My two saucers.

278
00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:08,320
Ah, for God's sake! The saucer...

279
00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:10,680
Saucers shouldn't be more than this.

280
00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,200
Let's go. Yes, let's go. Exactly.

281
00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,600
No offence, guys,
but this is really easy.

282
00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,360
I've got all the components,
so I'm nearly done.

283
00:13:18,400 --> 00:13:20,000
For those finished throwing,

284
00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:22,080
their coffee pots
are now leather-hard

285
00:13:22,120 --> 00:13:24,080
and are ready
to be radically altered...

286
00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:27,920
I'm doing this very gently
just cos the clay's harder up here

287
00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:30,760
than it is down there and I'm just
trying to see how much give it has.

288
00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:33,160
..but the potters
must take the utmost care.

289
00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:36,040
You've got to respond to the clay
and not push it too far.

290
00:13:36,080 --> 00:13:38,800
They must manipulate the clay
at the right moment...

291
00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:40,280
These are the coffee-pot legs.

292
00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,440
Quite different moisture content
between those two

293
00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,080
and I'm worried it'll crack,
so I'll try and match up moisture.

294
00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:49,280
..to avoid any cracked joints
or weak seams.

295
00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:52,440
Arrgh! I'm so scared
of this challenge.

296
00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:54,280
This is crazy for me, honestly.

297
00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:58,320
It's quite dry,
so I'm hoping it won't crack.

298
00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:00,880
I hope it works.
I'm not absolutely sure,

299
00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:04,360
you know, what happens when
you stress out clay like this.

300
00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,080
I've faffed around so much.
What I love about this is that

301
00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,880
you've actually made
twice the amount.

302
00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,360
But I'm not using twice the amount.
It's a bit of a waste cos...

303
00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:17,400
Work smarter, not harder.
Yeah. Yeah.

304
00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,600
Saw that in graffiti
on the back of a bathroom door.

305
00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:24,560
I'm going to cut a big hole here
and then put a tube through

306
00:14:24,600 --> 00:14:27,040
so that you can grab it.
That's the idea.

307
00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,400
We just need to get
the hole patched up now.

308
00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:32,440
Otherwise, we'll have
coffee problems.

309
00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:34,800
Why did I choose to do this?

310
00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:36,960
Ambition. Ha-ha! Bravery.

311
00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:40,960
I hope you appreciate it
when it works, cos it will work.

312
00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:43,000
No matter how creative the design,

313
00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,360
the coffee sets
still need to be functional.

314
00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,320
It's got to still do its job,
so there's a spout on the jug.

315
00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:51,800
It's got to hold some fluid
and be pourable.

316
00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:53,120
Hopefully, I achieve that.

317
00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:58,280
James? Hmm? Are you putting
a big hole in your coffee-pot spout

318
00:14:58,320 --> 00:14:59,760
or little ones, like a teapot?

319
00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,640
I'm not doing...
I'm just doing a lip.

320
00:15:01,680 --> 00:15:03,040
You don't want it to dribble.

321
00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,760
I'm wanting it to be sharper
and sharper as it gets to the end,

322
00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:08,680
so that the liquid ends up
being thrown off the surface.

323
00:15:08,720 --> 00:15:12,880
So, I've got to cut it
slightly down like that.

324
00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,840
Potters, you have one hour left.
Last hour of making.

325
00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:18,200
Don't panic!

326
00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,400
So, I need to attach my handles
to my mugs, which take a long time,

327
00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:24,280
and I don't know
if they stand up yet.

328
00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:27,520
I need to fit my handles.
I need to make my saucers.

329
00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,880
I need jet fuel to get this done.

330
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:36,000
Caitlin, those cups and saucers -
absolutely amazing concept.

331
00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:38,360
But whether
they'll actually function, I mean,

332
00:15:38,400 --> 00:15:41,240
whether they'll even stand up,
I mean...

333
00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:42,920
This is going to be my sugar pot,

334
00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:47,720
so I'm just trying to attach
a slab to the back of it

335
00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,080
so that it's radically altered.

336
00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:53,840
In many respects, Lois's forms,
particularly with the cups,

337
00:15:53,880 --> 00:15:55,360
are starting to pay off

338
00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,680
because they're quite strange forms.
But it's possible to finish them,

339
00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,480
turn them, and get those pristine
surfaces, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.

340
00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:04,400
That's not too bad.

341
00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:07,520
Jon is starting to apply
all of those different elements.

342
00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,920
I'm just concerned that
they're going to be very heavy.

343
00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:14,400
Come on!

344
00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:17,520
Do you want me to press it in?
That usually helps. Go on, then.

345
00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:21,520
See what that looks like. OK.

346
00:16:22,600 --> 00:16:25,800
Not a success.
I mean, we tried it. We did.

347
00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,760
I think she realised that,
obviously, tying a ribbon

348
00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:30,360
wasn't really going to work. Yeah.

349
00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,200
I mean, if we put a belt on
and we tie it, we'll move

350
00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,120
because we're nice and soft
and squidgy, but...

351
00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,440
Speak for yourself, Keith!

352
00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:40,560
But with clay,
you can't really do that.

353
00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,400
Well, I'm a bit bothered now that,

354
00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,120
yeah, no, they may say that
it doesn't fit the brief.

355
00:16:45,160 --> 00:16:47,200
I'm not sure that
this is abstract enough.

356
00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:51,440
Potters, you have half an hour left.
Half an hour left.

357
00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:52,840
What a joke!

358
00:16:52,880 --> 00:16:55,600
I have set myself
an absolutely massive,

359
00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:57,320
mammoth challenge.

360
00:16:57,360 --> 00:16:59,200
Score, score, slip.
Score, score, slip.

361
00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,480
Score, score, score, score, score.

362
00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,200
Not going to have the chance
for handles.

363
00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,640
This is not great, but, you know,
they're still usable.

364
00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:09,080
Right, let's get a saucer done.
Come here.

365
00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:10,600
Bend this one.

366
00:17:10,640 --> 00:17:12,440
How are you getting on, Helen?

367
00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,560
Yeah, I'm OK.
I'd like to put some beads on.

368
00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,000
Would you agree this is
the hardest challenge you've had?

369
00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:22,480
Yes. Last five minutes.
Come on, now, guys. Oh, gosh!

370
00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,840
Please, please,
don't give me a heart attack.

371
00:17:24,880 --> 00:17:27,600
Start bringing things into
the drying room.

372
00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:31,360
Excellent, Helen.
The cups and saucers are going in.

373
00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,080
Oh, have I finished that?
Oh, wait... Yeah, you have!

374
00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:37,760
It looks very finished.
Oh, my God! OK.

375
00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:41,880
Can you carry it? Yeah.
Oh, my God! That was so not nice!

376
00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:48,840
Right, I'm coming in, Helen.
Watch out. Ten seconds!

377
00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:54,360
Nine, eight, seven...
Thank you. Thank you.

378
00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:58,360
..six, five, four,

379
00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:02,320
three, two, one.

380
00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:06,920
Well done!
That was extraordinary work.

381
00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,160
You should be very,
very proud of yourselves.

382
00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,840
You now get to have a break
and recuperate,

383
00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,840
and we will see you soon.
Potters dismissed.

384
00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:23,240
I need to let my hair down
after that

385
00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,440
because that was the most insane,

386
00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,440
craziest thing
that I have ever done.

387
00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:30,480
I think everyone's
absolutely worn out.

388
00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,720
There's just so much to do!

389
00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,760
Wow! I think I need, like,
a week's rest now.

390
00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:39,000
I was stressed at times
and things didn't work.

391
00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:40,840
I don't know what
it's going to come out like

392
00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,480
and I don't know
what the judges think,

393
00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,000
but it doesn't matter.
I did my best.

394
00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,200
That was a quarterfinal!

395
00:18:46,240 --> 00:18:49,440
They have risen the stakes so much
and I cannot believe

396
00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,240
we all managed to get something
in the drying room.

397
00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:03,400
The potters are back to face
their mysterious second challenge.

398
00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,480
Ooh-hoo-hoo! It's not a big lump.
I'm scared now.

399
00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,040
Oh, he's got dungarees on! No!

400
00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:17,880
Welcome back, potters.

401
00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:20,840
Now, this week,
your second challenge is

402
00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,560
a Throw Down, and the judges
want to be bowled over...

403
00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,400
Uh-oh. ..as they would
like you to make

404
00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:33,320
as many high-footed rice bowls
as you can.

405
00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:38,560
They all need to be identical
and they have to be thrown in one.

406
00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:40,480
Now, to show us how it's done

407
00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:45,080
is our royal high-ness himself,
master potter Keith.

408
00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:48,480
Please, take to the wheel.
OK. There's our ware board.

409
00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:50,440
Oh, right. I see you.

410
00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,240
It's porcelain, isn't it?
Yeah, you've guessed it.

411
00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:55,680
I've never thrown with porcelain.

412
00:19:55,720 --> 00:19:57,560
So, you're going
to be throwing in porcelain.

413
00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,360
Porcelain is quite tricky.

414
00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,680
Even when you pat it,
it brings the water to the surface,

415
00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:08,040
so you have to be really quick,
really purposeful with it,

416
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,160
and it is probably
the hardest clay to throw with.

417
00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,080
It's like throwing with ice cream.

418
00:20:13,120 --> 00:20:15,040
It doesn't taste
like ice cream, though.

419
00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,920
I've done that so you don't need to.

420
00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,640
You really have to think of
that proportion of the stem

421
00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,640
to the overall rice bowl that
you're going to try and achieve.

422
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:25,360
So, there you go -
there's your stem.

423
00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,160
I'll go down with my finger
just to start you off.

424
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:29,400
Nice and slow.

425
00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:33,240
What you want to try and do
is almost throw from the inside,

426
00:20:33,280 --> 00:20:35,280
just gently pull it out.

427
00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:38,520
But you don't want to go too far
because it will collapse.

428
00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,560
You've only got one go with this,

429
00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,520
one pull, to actually get
that nice bowl shape you're after.

430
00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,960
And they really want
to look like this one.

431
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,800
We don't want your interpretation.

432
00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,480
Then get your wire, wire it through,

433
00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:53,640
bit of water on there,
and there you go.

434
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:57,160
What we're really looking for
is that nice bowl shape on the top,

435
00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,120
a high-footed stem that's
in proportion with the bowl shape.

436
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,280
OK, potters,
back to your benches, please.

437
00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:08,480
Oh, dear! Potters,
you have been given...

438
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,160
How long do you think?
Half an hour. Half an hour.

439
00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:14,000
..15 minutes...

440
00:21:14,040 --> 00:21:18,000
..to make as many high-footed
rice bowls as you can,

441
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,880
and your time starts...now!

442
00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,040
Remove the hessian.

443
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,120
I'm panicking already.

444
00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:27,920
How many balls?

445
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:30,440
What does it feel like? Sticky.

446
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,320
It feels like clotted cream.

447
00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:34,920
I've never thrown
with porcelain before, ever.

448
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:36,480
This is so weird.

449
00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:39,440
Porcelain is made up of
finer components than other clays.

450
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,520
This makes it very difficult
to throw forms on the wheel.

451
00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:44,440
Opening up from the top
is very strange.

452
00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,960
It'll be hard to throw with
cos it doesn't feel like
it's got a lot of strength to it.

453
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,720
Keith threw up the stem first

454
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:51,800
and then sort of left it,
so I'm trying to do that.

455
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:53,240
If you take it too fast,

456
00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:57,040
you just get inconsistencies
and it starts wobbling. Yes.

457
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,960
Oh, it's wobbling
all over the place!

458
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,760
Nice and easy, Jon.

459
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,360
I think the bowl shape's quite good,
but there's a lot of stem.

460
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,080
Come on! It's so slippery.

461
00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:08,800
James has one done.

462
00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:10,560
Nice work, James.

463
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,240
Oh, got my other goblet.

464
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:15,040
Remember, we don't want a goblet.
We want a bowl.

465
00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,040
It's a gobletty thing,
but it's a practice.

466
00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:19,040
Jon has made one.

467
00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,760
This one, I am attempting
to do a little bit more bowl

468
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:23,200
and a bit less stem

469
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,360
cos there was far too much stem
in that last one.

470
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:26,640
I'm struggling to get it off.

471
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:29,760
Well done, Caitlin.
Yes! Bowl proportions.

472
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:32,000
That's what we want.
How are we doing, Helen?

473
00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,320
That's five minutes gone, potters.
Jeez! Five minutes gone.

474
00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:38,040
You've got one done. Well done.

475
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:39,760
There we go. That's all right.

476
00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,640
It's like a slightly fatter goblet
than the last one.

477
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:44,280
They don't really
look identical to me.

478
00:22:44,320 --> 00:22:46,760
I was holding my breath there.
Oh, my gosh! I know.

479
00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,320
It's really fragile, this stuff,
isn't it? It is.

480
00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:52,120
Don't go near it, Siobhan.
Don't go near it.

481
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,960
OK, I'll back away.
I'll back away.

482
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:58,360
Don't want to rush. Yeah, you really
don't want to rush this clay.

483
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:02,840
It's not forgiving,
this clay. You touch it and it goes.

484
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:04,920
It's an unusual clay.
It's a very, very fine clay.

485
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,800
And the way it behaves
is just very different.

486
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,880
I'm not sure that
I've shaped that one the same

487
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:10,960
cos they're quite upright

488
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,560
as opposed to wide,
but I'll go with it anyway.

489
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:16,200
We're nearly finished
the second one. How is it?

490
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:19,880
Erm, I want to make one
that's at least a bowl.

491
00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:21,480
That would be great.

492
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,000
Well done, Lois.
You've still got time.

493
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,520
Got to do quality and quantity.

494
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,360
They don't ask for much, do they?

495
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:31,640
I'm not going to go for quality.
I'm going to go for quantity.
Take your time, Jon.

496
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:33,600
Take your time?
Don't take your time!

497
00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,600
Didn't give me any time!
You need to hurry up

498
00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,000
because you've only five minutes
left. Five minutes left.

499
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:40,520
Oh, God! Five minutes left, potters!

500
00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,360
I'm really trying not to panic now.

501
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:45,520
James, how are we doing?
I want to get rid of this one
cos it's not gone very well.

502
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:48,560
We're going to get through it. We're
going to get through our fourth one.

503
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:51,040
At least one more, eh?
The more I make,

504
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,440
the more that can go in the bucket,
I suppose. I don't know.

505
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:55,720
There's a bit more bowl
to this one than there is stem,

506
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:56,960
so I think it's a bit better.

507
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,720
Come on, Jon! You can do it.
Get another goblet done.

508
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:01,160
Get another ball on the wheel.

509
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,720
Caitlin, come on!

510
00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:05,120
Just one more! Just one more.
You can do it!

511
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,720
Don't ruin it. Please don't die.
Please don't die.

512
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:09,720
One minute left, potters!

513
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,320
That's not good.

514
00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:13,040
I've got to go faster
to get it done.

515
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,640
Lois, you could get one more done
in this final minute.

516
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:16,960
I know you can.

517
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:18,920
This is a one-minute bowl, people.

518
00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:21,120
Well done, Helen.
You going to go in again? Yeah.

519
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,680
Yes! Use every last second.

520
00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,120
Ten seconds! Arrgh! Nine...

521
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,280
..eight...
Go on, Helen! ..seven, six,

522
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,160
five, four... Go on, Helen!

523
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,920
..three, two... Go on, Helen! ..one!

524
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,920
Go on, Helen! Yes!

525
00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,600
Marvellous! Best one you did!

526
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,760
Oh, that's ridiculous.

527
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:48,880
Well done!

528
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,040
That's a nice one, Jon, there.
It's good. That's my favourite.

529
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,400
The judges are looking for
beautifully finished,

530
00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:57,080
identical rice bowls

531
00:24:57,120 --> 00:24:59,840
with a perfectly proportioned,
high-footed stem.

532
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,000
Hey, Jon. Hi. What was it like
throwing with porcelain?

533
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:06,840
It's so soft. It was gentle,
you felt. Yeah.

534
00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:08,520
Just not move it too much,
really. Yeah.

535
00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:09,920
What, like you've been here?

536
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,600
Yeah, that one. Gentle with this
one? Really gentle with that one.

537
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,080
I feel like I should save... Oh!

538
00:25:14,120 --> 00:25:15,360
I couldn't even get in there.

539
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:17,720
I was going to say,
before we started,

540
00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,480
the Keith that we know and love
is no longer in the room.

541
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:21,800
Just bear this in mind.

542
00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:25,160
Yeah, that one's pants, as well. Oh!

543
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,600
The thing is,
is it a bowl or is it a goblet?

544
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,600
Well, it's all relative,
really, isn't it?

545
00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,960
It looks a little bit like
there's not been too much bravery

546
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,520
to open those forms out.

547
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:39,480
Little bit closed at the top.
But you did make seven of them.

548
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,880
We want quality
as well as quantity, really.

549
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:44,320
I mean, this is not great, is it?

550
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:46,600
I was just going to say, actually,
that one there looks

551
00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:48,920
a little bit at odds
to perhaps the rest of them. Yeah.

552
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:52,240
It's naff, actually, Jon. Yeah. Ooh!

553
00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:54,080
So, right, four, Jon. Well done.

554
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:02,440
It went one, two, three, four,
one minute. Yeah, that's hopeless.

555
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,800
Looking at them,
you've got a lovely consistency

556
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,120
across all of the rims.
They feel like they're... Yeah.

557
00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:10,680
..a very even thickness.

558
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,480
They do. They do. And you've got...

559
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,800
You've got a really nice
kind of fluent shape in there.

560
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,000
That's a bowl, isn't it?
Yeah. That's a bowl shape.

561
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,440
Yeah, just a...

562
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,440
They could have been splayed out
a little bit more,

563
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,440
but I think
we can actually leave those.

564
00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:26,640
Thank goodness for that.

565
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,400
I'll take him away before
he changes his mind. Yeah. Bye!

566
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,160
Bye-bye, now. They're great.
Well done. Cheers, Lois. Thanks!

567
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:38,920
Hello, Helen. Hi, Helen.

568
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,120
Hi. So, how did you find that, then?

569
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:42,960
Oh!

570
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:45,680
I was going to take that one...
That was my sculpture! Yeah!

571
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:47,640
That's going in.
Yeah, in the bucket.

572
00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:50,120
You've got a nice,
consistent rim on all these.

573
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:51,920
You know, I really admire
your bravery.

574
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,960
Actually, the bowl element
is really quite wide.

575
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,280
It's just the foot. Yeah. You know,
that one there kind of...

576
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,280
Yeah, no, that one's... It's two
from Rich! I know, I'm sorry.

577
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,720
This is the effect he has.

578
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,680
The proportion wasn't quite right

579
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,320
and it was a bit lower
than the others.

580
00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:09,200
No, well done, Helen. Lovely.
Well done. Excellent. Thanks.

581
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,720
They're all nicely thrown.

582
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,680
There's a lovely consistency
and nice, fine rim on them.

583
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:19,840
It just feels a bit like

584
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,280
the distribution of the clay
is different to Keith's.

585
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,000
You've got slightly longer feet

586
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,000
and smaller bowls
on the top of them.

587
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,520
But they are beautifully made

588
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,440
and there's a lovely consistency
in the shape.

589
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,800
But that one...

590
00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:32,520
That's all right.
That won't bother me.

591
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:35,280
That was a goblet,
so that's got to go.

592
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,240
It's that one that's pants, though.

593
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:40,040
I have to say, that was the one
I had my mind on. Yeah.

594
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:42,000
It just felt less finished
at the base,

595
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:43,800
and the form wasn't
quite as consistent.

596
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:45,640
But really nicely thrown. Yeah.

597
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,520
Brilliant. Cheers, James.
Thanks a lot.

598
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:52,720
Have you thrown in porcelain before?

599
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:55,080
No, I've never touched
porcelain before.

600
00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:57,040
I'm reluctant to throw any of them.

601
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,160
Goodnight. I...
Right, let's go. Let's go.

602
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,360
No, I'm pretty blown away by that.
That's really, really good.

603
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,480
I'm quite... I'm impressed.
Thank you.

604
00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,720
What you've done is
you've managed to get

605
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,600
the proportion of that stem right,
the rims are nice and consistent,

606
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,080
and you've got that bowl shape
on the inside.

607
00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:17,360
I think even this one over here
is not too bad at all.

608
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,800
It is very consistent
across all of them. Yeah.

609
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,960
And they feel the closest
to Keith's form, actually.

610
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:24,800
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, well done,
Caitlin. Really well done.

611
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,320
Fantastic. Thank you very much.

612
00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:31,440
The judges will now rank the potters
from worst to first.

613
00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:34,920
In fifth place is Jon.

614
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:37,520
They're just a little bit more
goblet-shaped than bowl.

615
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,600
In fourth place, Helen.

616
00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,560
We would have just liked to have
seen those stems a bit higher.

617
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,720
In third place, we have James.

618
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,800
They were really,
really nicely thrown.

619
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,080
Bit inconsistent with the sizing.
Second place...

620
00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:55,320
..is Lois.

621
00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:57,600
They were just
that little bit more bowl-shaped

622
00:28:57,640 --> 00:28:58,880
than some of the others.

623
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:03,360
And so that just leaves
first place - Caitlin. Well done.

624
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,640
That's totally blind-sided me.

625
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:10,040
I mean, as soon as I saw
the porcelain, I was like,

626
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,480
"Oh, no! This is not
going to go well."

627
00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,360
So, it's a really nice surprise
that I came in first place,

628
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:17,120
and I maybe will try
porcelain again.

629
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,240
Yeah, that didn't go so well -
fifth out of five.

630
00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:23,080
Couldn't get much worse, really,
but I was very pleased I managed
to throw with all seven balls.

631
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,920
They just thought that
the quality was so low

632
00:29:24,960 --> 00:29:26,760
that the quantity
did not make up for it.

633
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:30,680
I enjoyed the challenge,
but I still came second to last!

634
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,920
I don't think they'll like
my coffee pot either,

635
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:34,720
so I've packed!

636
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,440
It's early morning in the pottery.

637
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:44,400
Our potters' coffee sets
have been bisque-fired overnight

638
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:46,080
and are ready for decoration...

639
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:52,520
Really excited about decoration,

640
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,320
but what I've got to make sure
is that I don't faff.

641
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,040
..but first
the potters must discover

642
00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:58,800
if their radically altered
coffee sets

643
00:29:58,840 --> 00:30:00,120
have survived in one piece.

644
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,440
Quite excited last night
thinking about it being fired.

645
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,400
If it's fallen apart,
then it's a disaster,

646
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:05,960
but I think,
if it's stayed together,

647
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,880
then I've got a good chance,
with decoration,

648
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:09,720
to achieve pretty much
what I was aiming for.

649
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,880
Good morning, potters. Hello, hello!
Oh, look at that! All intact.

650
00:30:14,920 --> 00:30:18,200
Well done, Lois.
Oh, it comes off! Yay!

651
00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,000
James. Oh, that's me.

652
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:21,840
Oh, James, look!

653
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,440
So, it's going to hold coffee.
Yeah, yeah, not going to leak.

654
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,960
My saucers -
I'm worried that they'll warp

655
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,240
and therefore,
if they're also unsteady,

656
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:31,240
then my mugs have no chance.

657
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:35,480
Ooh! Oh, yes! Yeah, there we go!
Yes! It stands up in the saucer.

658
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,760
Here we go, Helen.
They fit really nicely.

659
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,240
What a stroke of luck!

660
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,160
Right, Jon, lots of legs.
Oh, they're good.

661
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:46,880
That's really good. No, that's good.

662
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,520
Welcome back, potters.

663
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,040
Your coffee sets
have been bisque-fired

664
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,200
and are ready to be decorated.

665
00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:00,960
Well, as this challenge
is all about being radical,

666
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,200
this stage is absolutely crucial.

667
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:05,040
Be bold with your colour choices

668
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,800
and really bring
your pieces together

669
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,120
as an exciting statement coffee set.

670
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:10,960
Now, you've worked really,
really hard

671
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:12,840
on those shapes and forms
of your coffee sets.

672
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,440
Don't ruin it with bad decoration.

673
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:17,920
You know, be careful
with that glaze application

674
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,480
and really wow us
with that creativity.

675
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:25,360
You've been given a range of glazes
and three hours to use them,

676
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,360
and your time starts now!

677
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:36,280
Right... The judges have asked
for bold and vibrant decoration...

678
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,480
Red Dragon or Fire Engine Red?

679
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,800
Gone with Fire Engine Red.
Bit of zing to the other one.

680
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,680
..so our potters
need to think carefully

681
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,280
about what colours they select.

682
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:47,960
Just trying to think stuff through
before I start randomly going crazy.

683
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,480
The stakes are high now.

684
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,240
That's what gets me.
I'm like, "Ooh-hoo-hoo!"

685
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:54,000
So, my overall design,

686
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:57,760
it's really a tribute
to the designers of the '60s.

687
00:31:57,800 --> 00:31:59,480
Bit of hippy flower power,

688
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:03,240
so just every colour on that table
is going on this pot.

689
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,960
Caitlin pushed the clay
to its limits with her make...

690
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,120
They do stand up in the saucer.
Blimey! Well done. I know.

691
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:13,160
..but her plans for her decoration
are somewhat simpler.

692
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,480
I'm sticking with
three simple colours. OK.

693
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,720
So, I'm going for red,
blue and yellow,

694
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,280
so I'm going for quite a simple,
but bold look.

695
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,280
Well, it's so weird. You know,
we use this word "simple"... Yeah.

696
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,640
..but, actually, the simplicity,
the harder it is...

697
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,640
Yeah, yeah, exactly. ..cos there's
literally nowhere to hide. Yeah.

698
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,080
Caitlin's not the only potter
taking a block colour approach.

699
00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:35,640
Just trying to use three colours
which stand out -

700
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:37,480
primary colours,
so they're nice and bold.

701
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,160
I'm looking for
a really solid colour.

702
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,000
I'm trying to emphasise
each of the pieces.

703
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:45,840
You're not going to sort of do
a faded watercolour kind of thingy?

704
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,360
No, I don't have Lois's skill set
for any of that malarkey,

705
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,520
so I'm just going to slap it...
Do you hear that, Lois?

706
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,120
We haven't got
any faded colours today.

707
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,240
Like I have done
in other challenges,

708
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:56,960
I'm going to mix up
my colours a bit.

709
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,680
I just feel like
it gives it a bit extra,

710
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,040
like, a bit more of me.

711
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,040
I hope I can get them
bright enough.

712
00:33:02,080 --> 00:33:04,320
Neat and defined
application of colour

713
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:05,960
will be crucial for our potters

714
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,080
in achieving a professional
as well as eye-catching finish.

715
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,680
I want to have good clean lines,

716
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:12,440
good tidy blocks
between the colours.

717
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,960
I'm not a decorative painter,

718
00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,360
so I'm trying to be calm
at the edges.

719
00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,120
Use a bigger brush.
It'll go quicker.

720
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,960
Because I'm creating
different sections of colour,

721
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:23,160
I want that to be
a really neat line...

722
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,880
Oh, right. OK.
..so I'm using a wee brush to go...

723
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:27,560
A nice transition.

724
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,600
Yes, a very bold transition.
Oh, bold transition.

725
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,560
Straight line.
That's what I like to hear. Yes.

726
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,080
And what colour are you going
to do the watering can?

727
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,080
Watering can?
You're hitting the brief,

728
00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:41,960
which is radically alter
a coffee-pot set. To...

729
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,120
You've radically altered it.
..a watering can?

730
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:47,560
Yeah, and a teething ring.
Yeah, exactly! It's great.

731
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,240
A pigeon. There we go.

732
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:51,760
A little pigeon!

733
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,880
I don't want texture of
brush strokes and things in there.

734
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:58,400
I want it to all come through
just yellow, red, blue.

735
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:00,960
Almost that you wouldn't see
it's applied with a paintbrush.

736
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:04,680
If creating immaculate block colours
by hand wasn't hard enough...

737
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,960
Just got to keep your hand
so steady, haven't you? Arrgh!

738
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,360
..once again, James has
given himself even more to do.

739
00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:14,440
The outlines are drawings

740
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,320
of whatever the object is
they're drawing on.

741
00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,960
So, on the coffee pot,
there's lots of little coffee pots.

742
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,840
You're going to paint
all of these? Wow! That...

743
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:23,720
I admire your ambition, James.

744
00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:26,960
Well, I will leave you to
your mammoth decorating task.

745
00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:30,000
Good luck with it!
Every minute counts.

746
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,680
I've spent over an hour
doing two cups and saucers.

747
00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:37,440
That's just dreadful.

748
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,400
I saw a Picasso painting
with eyes like this,

749
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,120
so I copied that look.

750
00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:45,040
I've given myself a hard job,

751
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,640
but I like the effect,
I like the colour.

752
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,880
It means something to me, this era,

753
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,520
so I've given myself a real job
to get all this done in time.

754
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,800
You're really getting into
your decoration.

755
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:57,120
I know. I didn't...

756
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,080
Before this competition,
I didn't know,

757
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:05,400
so this is lovely to have found that
I can paint and I really enjoy it.

758
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,080
It's lovely. Yeah.
Keep going with your decoration.

759
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,640
See you on Carnaby Street.
Groovy, baby!

760
00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:18,320
Potters, you're halfway through.
Halfway through.

761
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,080
Big, deep breaths.

762
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,040
Now I just need
some layers on there.

763
00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,280
In order to achieve bold and
vibrant colours on their coffee set,

764
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,280
the potters need to build up
multiple layers of underglaze.

765
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:32,760
It's just weighing up the time
cos I could spend hours

766
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:34,960
making sure that
they're nice and neat and bold,

767
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:36,920
but I've got
to get the balance right.

768
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:39,400
It's getting a bit tight,
so I'm slapping it on.

769
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,240
Although it needs
about three layers,

770
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,600
I'm going to do two layers thick.
Might just be enough.

771
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,440
I am painting colour by colour

772
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,840
just to make it easy
for my wee brain

773
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:52,040
and not pick up
the wrong paintbrush

774
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:55,200
and put a big dob on. Oh!

775
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:00,240
You all right? No, I just stuck
the brush in the wrong colour
and stuck it on the pot.

776
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,520
Haven't got time for that, Jon!
I know!

777
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:05,800
I think the thing
for all of our potters

778
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:07,480
is good application, isn't it?

779
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:09,760
Getting enough coats
of that underglaze on

780
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:13,160
that they're really block colours,
because if they're not well applied,

781
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:14,720
they're just going
to be see-through

782
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,760
and it's just going to look patchy.

783
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:20,560
Maybe a little bit too cavalier
about it, but I'll tidy it up.

784
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,120
Jon and Caitlin
are probably very similar

785
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:26,040
in the way they're approaching
those block colours

786
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,360
to really accentuate
those different shapes.

787
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,400
I just haven't got time
to be able to faff around

788
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:33,840
and make sure every single
little bit's nice and neat.

789
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,280
But then you've got James.

790
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,400
There's a lot going on there,
isn't there? Yeah.

791
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,240
I'm struggling with
that smaller brush.

792
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,840
I'm loving the look of Lois's.

793
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,200
It feels very different
to what she'd ordinarily do.

794
00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:46,760
She usually has
quite a sort of painterly style,

795
00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,800
and this looks much more about,
like, block colours. Yeah, yeah.

796
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,680
It does look quite similar
to what I designed,

797
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:55,280
so, yeah, that's a real good thing,
in my book.

798
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,440
Helen has gone for
quite an intricate kind of design.

799
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,280
In appearance, her shapes are
sort of slightly more simple,

800
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:02,680
to a degree. Yeah.

801
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:05,640
And they're kind of relying very
heavily on that decoration... Yeah.

802
00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:08,000
..to kind of really pick them up.
Pick them up, yeah. Yeah.

803
00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,720
My decoration, I'm hoping that
that will pull me through,

804
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:16,600
but I've still got two pieces to do
and not much time to do them in.

805
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,560
Potters, that's half an hour left.
Last 30 minutes.

806
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:22,840
Oh, 30 minutes already?

807
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,440
Come on.

808
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:31,080
This is the last bit I've got to do,
but it's being a bit messy.

809
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,320
The red looks really watery.

810
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,040
I feel like
I'm messing this up a bit.

811
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:36,840
I like the look with it lined.

812
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,520
You need a really steady hand
to be doing this,

813
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,400
and lots of time,
and I haven't got it.

814
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:43,640
I'm really worried
I'm not going to get finished.

815
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:46,800
But Caitlin might have a bigger
problem with one of her cups.

816
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:48,320
It has started to come apart.

817
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,400
I'm hoping we'll sort of patch up
with the transparent glaze

818
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:53,280
that I'll put on top,
so it'll still be,

819
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,680
hopefully, a functional cup.
They've all turned out well.

820
00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,840
Just getting them all ready
for glazing now, really.

821
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,320
I'm going to go dunk it
in the bucket.

822
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:01,560
You're going to be finished
in time? I hope so.

823
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:05,280
All right, head off and glaze.
Oh, it's busy, busy.

824
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:09,000
That transparent glaze
seals all the colours in

825
00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:10,960
and will make it food-safe.

826
00:38:11,000 --> 00:38:12,840
You can use it for coffee.

827
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:16,040
The coffee pot itself is in.

828
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:18,200
I'm trying to avoid
this middle section

829
00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:20,960
because that's where my cups
are going to sit during the firing.

830
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,120
So, if I glaze that bit,
then they'll stick,

831
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,320
and that won't be good.
Final two minutes, potters!

832
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:27,600
Final two minutes!

833
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:30,320
Come on in. Welcome.
Come on in. Thank you so much.

834
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,880
Stick it in with her hands now.
Rub-a-dub-dub!

835
00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,080
It's going to stick. I've not
been able to wipe anything.

836
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,280
I'm nearly there.
I'm wiping bottoms now.

837
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:40,960
Do you want a hand? I'm done. Yes!

838
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,440
Wipe the bottom of that lid.
Ten seconds, potters!

839
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,800
Step away from your benches.
Well done!

840
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,480
Oh, mine's such a mess!

841
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:55,000
Oh, that was full-on.

842
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,120
I really struggled
to get everything done.

843
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:59,600
I don't know whether
it fits the brief.

844
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:00,960
Is it abstract enough?

845
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,760
Decorating went quite well.

846
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:06,920
I did manage to finish it
with calmness at the end there,

847
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,520
so that was good for me.

848
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,200
I've given myself quite a lot to do,
probably a little bit too much,

849
00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:13,440
but that's all part and parcel
of the whole challenge.

850
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:15,560
I'm really happy with it.
I think I've hit the brief,

851
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,920
the abstract aspect.
I think I've got the bold colours.

852
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:20,840
Didn't get to clean my bottoms,
my galleries.

853
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,440
Bit of a disaster, to be honest.

854
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:25,360
I'm worried that I won't be able
to move my mug from the saucer.

855
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,240
We'll see what comes out
of the kiln.

856
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,600
It's judgment day, and the potters'
radically altered coffee sets

857
00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,960
have been gloss-fired and
are ready to come out of the kiln.

858
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,680
Oh, it is judgment day!
The day's finally here.

859
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:49,520
I am apprehensive to see
how my stuff's come out of the kiln.

860
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:52,680
Now that I've glazed things,
I'm worried that they might
have stuck together.

861
00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:55,080
Oh, no! Oh, no!

862
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,520
I reckon I can get them off.

863
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,280
I'm kind of hopeful, actually,
that it will be OK.

864
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,640
I hope my little spout
isn't too dribbly!

865
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,880
Coffee leaking out could be one
to send you home, I suspect.

866
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,000
Can I make it into the semifinals?

867
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,680
I really hope so.
Wouldn't that be great?

868
00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:13,480
I know I'm not safe,
not at the moment.

869
00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,360
My saving grace will be
if it's fairly intact.

870
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,240
They're stuck on
and I want to get a chisel to them

871
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,920
to see if I can get them off.

872
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:26,440
It's off! One is off.

873
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:29,320
Yay! Does it still stand?
It still stands.

874
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,000
Oh, that was quite scary, wasn't it?

875
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,560
Potters, your abstract coffee sets
look amazing.

876
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:46,120
Caitlin, would you please bring
your coffee set up to the judges?

877
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,440
All right, great.

878
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:02,640
I love the concept.
I think it's really mind-boggling.

879
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,120
Out of all the potters
in the pottery,

880
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:09,040
yours is the best idea.

881
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:13,040
You know, that does sit in there
and, actually, it's fairly stable.

882
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,400
That is just brilliant.

883
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:17,960
I'm quite impressed with the way
you've made the doughnuts.

884
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,480
They're very symmetrical.
They're not heavy.

885
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:23,600
In terms of the quality
of the throwing across the set,

886
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:25,440
it's very good.
But there are elements,

887
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,840
I think, that perhaps could be
slightly better finished.

888
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:29,760
The rims aren't
sort of quite matching.

889
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,440
They're sort of thin and thick.

890
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:34,040
You see, the finish... Come on.

891
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,720
A couple of wipes with a sponge
would have got rid of that.

892
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,120
I mean, there are lovely elements.
You know, you pick up the cup,

893
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,160
and you wouldn't necessarily know
that was a cup.

894
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:44,320
You might think you were off
down the gym, you know,

895
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,800
for a bit of a workout. Feels like
a kettle bell or something.

896
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,080
It's so obscure.

897
00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:51,160
The quality of the application
of the glaze is very good.

898
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:53,720
Laying down a big patch
of that underglaze

899
00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:56,120
is really difficult
to maintain... Yeah.

900
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,680
..that kind of even quality
across all of the surface,

901
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:00,800
and you've done that
beautifully well.

902
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:02,400
Shall we test it out?

903
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,520
Might have a crack.
Oh, we've got a bit of a dribble.

904
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:09,680
Oh. Oh, I see. OK. Hang on.

905
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:12,680
That's pretty radical, though.
That is, yeah.

906
00:42:12,720 --> 00:42:15,200
But this is what I mean -
you can't fault the ambition.

907
00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:18,240
You've pushed the boundaries
of what we asked you to do

908
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,560
and you've delivered something
really, really wonderful.

909
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,440
I always thought
it was a bit of a risk

910
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:34,560
going for this kind of design
all the way through.

911
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,920
There are certain elements, for me,
that don't really work.

912
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,000
I mean, I love these
as a little concept,

913
00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:42,320
but maybe in
the abstract kind of design,

914
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,960
I'm not sure whether
that really worked for me.

915
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,720
I love this idea, as well.

916
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,120
Is it too subtle? I'm not sure.

917
00:42:49,160 --> 00:42:52,320
I sort of look at it
and it makes me think of, like,

918
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,200
a Roy Lichtenstein kind of print.

919
00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:57,720
It feels very pop arty, somehow.

920
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,840
I definitely admire the sheer volume

921
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,760
of decorative work you've got
on there. I mean, crikey!

922
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,440
To hand-draw all of
those little pots onto the side

923
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,120
is unbelievable.

924
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,680
You know, it doesn't necessarily
feel like the most radical,

925
00:43:10,720 --> 00:43:14,320
but I really like the design,
the use of colour,

926
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,920
the way it feels
very much like a set.

927
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:19,760
And the fact that
you used sacrificial pots

928
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:22,000
to kind of build into them
was really wise

929
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:23,880
because, actually,
it doesn't look like

930
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,680
you've got any severe cracks
in any of those joins.

931
00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:30,120
What you've managed to achieve in
the time that you had is staggering.

932
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,960
It's a potter's coffee set.

933
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,320
Any potter looking at that will say,
"That's actually hard to do."

934
00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:39,000
There's a lot of hidden detail
in the making,

935
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:41,960
and I want to commend you on that.
OK, then, let's test it.

936
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,640
Wow! Wow! It's very good.

937
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,320
That's really lovely, James.
That is a really good pourer.

938
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,760
That's a really good pourer.
No drips, nothing.

939
00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:57,240
Thank you very much. Thank you.

940
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,080
I remember coming round
to your work station

941
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,600
and you were in a joyful,
playful mood, weren't you? Mm-hm.

942
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:12,400
And you've given us a joyful,
playful coffee set.

943
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,040
The only thing is...

944
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:20,240
..is it a radically altered
coffee set? I like it.

945
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:24,000
I like it, too. I love these.
These are brilliant.

946
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,280
This is fantastic.

947
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:29,840
You do seem to have a really
good connection with brushwork,

948
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:33,960
and it's such a simple design
and yet so effective.

949
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:36,720
This is really nice
and I love the lid.

950
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:38,280
It works really, really well.

951
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:41,200
There's a slight crack
on the inside of this one... Yeah.

952
00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:45,080
..but both Rich and I thought that
that was a very, very hard form

953
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:47,920
to really achieve,
but you've achieved it.

954
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,320
It's just whether
you've followed the brief -

955
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,680
that's my main problem.

956
00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:55,600
You gave yourself
an absolutely mammoth task

957
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,120
with the decoration. Yeah.

958
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:59,000
There was a lot of surfaces
to cover.

959
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,840
I think the fluidity
that you've managed to achieve

960
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,920
in the body of that coffee pot
is really quite beautiful.

961
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,680
Yeah, very sexy. Yeah. It is!

962
00:45:06,720 --> 00:45:08,760
They're beautiful curves, Helen.

963
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,800
Thank you very much.

964
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,440
Back to the coffee set! And now,
yeah, back to the coffee pot.

965
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,560
Erm, I mean...

966
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,760
But I just love the stance.

967
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:20,960
She's got real presence,
you know? Yeah.

968
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,760
You know, even the handle,
it looks like her arm.

969
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:25,360
It really does. Yeah.

970
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,920
That's definitely
the statement piece, but, for me,

971
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:32,200
it's just the way you do the eyes.

972
00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:35,280
They're great! Thank you.
They're really brilliant.

973
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:36,720
Yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah.

974
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:39,360
There's something so simple
about it, but something so right.

975
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,480
Thank you.
OK, let's see how it pours.

976
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:47,680
Ooh!

977
00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:50,040
Not bad at all. Nice, Helen.

978
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,560
It's really charming.
It's really lovely. Thank you.

979
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,640
Well, it looks great.
I particularly like these,

980
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,040
and I'm quite glad
that you hadn't got the time

981
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,800
to put the handles on.

982
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:08,200
It does look stunning,

983
00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:10,520
and the fact that you've used
all this block colour

984
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,320
to accentuate all those
different shapes and forms going on

985
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,800
is just really, really good,
isn't it? Yeah.

986
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:18,840
I really, really like this.

987
00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:21,200
The actual shape
and the form and the concept

988
00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:24,480
is just really nice.
And, actually, this is fairly light,

989
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,560
whereas this... That's a beast,
that one, isn't it? Yeah.

990
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,800
This... It's a murder weapon, mate.
It's a bit on the heavy side.

991
00:46:31,840 --> 00:46:33,320
It's definitely radical.

992
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,560
It's certainly not
a conventional coffee set.

993
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,280
I like the thinking,
that idea of the tripod, you know,

994
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:39,640
that engineering of...

995
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:42,000
Oh, did we mention
you're into engineering?

996
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,040
I'm not sure we mentioned that.
Do you know what?

997
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,760
I get 20 quid every time
they mention an engineer.

998
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,040
I like the fact
that you've thought about

999
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,680
how these really obscure objects
are going to stand,

1000
00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:53,480
and it kind of throws
sort of everything

1001
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:56,760
we usually think about convention
out the window, so I like that.

1002
00:46:56,800 --> 00:46:59,320
I definitely admire
your bravery, Jon. Crikey!

1003
00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:01,680
And then you've got the spout.

1004
00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:03,920
I don't know
how that's going to pour.

1005
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,160
Ooh! Well, it's an unusual pourer.

1006
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,440
For me, if you'd just cut that off,

1007
00:47:14,480 --> 00:47:17,520
it would have poured so well,
I think. Yeah. Really bold, Jon.

1008
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,440
You've really pushed the boundaries
of the task in hand.

1009
00:47:20,480 --> 00:47:23,560
Lovely use of colour
and lovely use of shape and form.

1010
00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:36,680
So, Lois, for me, it looks like
a modern twist on Clarice Cliff -

1011
00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:40,280
the colours, the way that
they really accentuate the forms.

1012
00:47:40,320 --> 00:47:43,560
And I really like the cups.
I think they're really lovely.

1013
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:45,960
And to get this kind
of curve in there

1014
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,960
when you're throwing,
it takes some doing.

1015
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,480
And then you've carried on
that concept with the saucer.

1016
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:53,320
I really like that idea.

1017
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,680
It's definitely radically altered.
Yeah. Oh, good.

1018
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:58,240
Every single piece
has been taken away

1019
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:00,400
from a conventional shape.

1020
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,640
I love these - your sugar bowl
and your cream jug.

1021
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:07,080
I like the fact that you've got
that weight at the base

1022
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,320
because it gives it assurance
kind of when it's on the surface.

1023
00:48:10,360 --> 00:48:11,800
They're very stable, aren't they?

1024
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:14,200
Yeah, but without
sort of feeling heavy, somehow.

1025
00:48:14,240 --> 00:48:18,360
Wow! That handle works really well.
Oh, I'm glad you think so.

1026
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,760
Well, it feels comfortable
in the hand.

1027
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,600
All of the edges, as you go round
on the inside there,

1028
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,120
are beautifully finished,
beautifully smooth.

1029
00:48:26,160 --> 00:48:28,840
That's great. Yeah. Look at the
cross-section on that, you know?

1030
00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:30,880
I know! And that is
a lovely profile.

1031
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:33,560
You know, it's what
you'd be looking for in a saucer.

1032
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:34,800
Let's pour it.

1033
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:43,720
Wahay! Oh! Not too bad. Fabulous.

1034
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:46,880
Really good. I mean, you've got
that lovely balancing act.

1035
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:51,320
It works really well, practically,
and it looks different.

1036
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:53,040
It's definitely radically altered.

1037
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,320
No stone has been left unturned
in terms of

1038
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,480
every element being changed
and distorted from the original.

1039
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:00,360
I think it's great. Aw, thanks.

1040
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,080
Thank you. Well done.
Yeah, cheers, Lois.

1041
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:03,800
It was, like, crazy!

1042
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,560
Then to get positive feedback for it
was really nice.

1043
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:08,440
You couldn't ask for more,
could you, really?

1044
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,000
If you push it,
there's always risks.

1045
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,720
Myself and Caitlin pushed it and
we had problems that didn't work.

1046
00:49:12,760 --> 00:49:15,600
A bit of a dribbly carrot
on the coffee pot.

1047
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:17,600
What's a dribbly carrot
between friends?

1048
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,320
I sort of thought,
when I looked around the room,

1049
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:23,400
"They're going to tell me
it doesn't fit the brief

1050
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,160
"cos it's not
radically altered enough."

1051
00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:28,000
So, I was sort of waiting
for them to say it.

1052
00:49:28,040 --> 00:49:30,960
But, yeah, I mean, it's fair.
That's fair enough.

1053
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,360
What a week living in
an altered reality!

1054
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,000
How do you think our potters got on?

1055
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:44,040
I think they found it
really challenging,

1056
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:46,960
but if anyone was to win
just on the concept alone,

1057
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:48,240
it would be Caitlin.

1058
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:50,480
She really, really
pushed the boundaries.

1059
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:53,040
You know, I love to see people
push themselves,

1060
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,560
but it's got to be within the realms
of their ability.

1061
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,920
Their capability, yeah. You know,
some of the aspects of Caitlin's

1062
00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,200
were a little bit heavy. One of
the cups leaked quite heavily.

1063
00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:05,440
But it looks very interesting.
It doesn't look like a coffee set.

1064
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:07,280
How do you think
James got on this week?

1065
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:08,640
He was brave, in a sense,

1066
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:10,920
because to cut a section out
of every single piece...

1067
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,600
He made two sets. Yeah, I mean...
Yeah, that's it. A donor set. Yeah!

1068
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:18,000
Yeah, beautifully put together,
but not that out there.

1069
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,680
And Jon, unfortunately,
came last in the second challenge.

1070
00:50:21,720 --> 00:50:24,080
Do you think he's in danger?

1071
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,960
I mean, I think the coffee pot
was a bit of an oversight.

1072
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,680
It was very heavy, but, you know,
you can't fault his ambition.

1073
00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:33,440
And just the mere concept
of the mug standing up.

1074
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,720
Even if it was on a slight incline?

1075
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:37,960
Even if it was on
his upside-down saucer!

1076
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:40,040
He's taken a saucer

1077
00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:43,600
and he's turned it upside down
and then he's stuck his mug on it.

1078
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,000
Brilliant! Well, there you go.
There you go - there's abstract.

1079
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,760
And Lois -
was her set exciting to you?

1080
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:52,120
That ball underneath the jug
and the sugar pot -

1081
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:53,880
really, really inspired.

1082
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:56,720
She'd thrown those really intricate
concertina shapes.

1083
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,960
She still then chose
to cut them to pieces

1084
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:00,880
and reassemble them
and reconstruct them.

1085
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,600
It just felt
really radically altered.

1086
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:07,800
You know, Jon, Lois and Caitlin
have done really, really well

1087
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:10,720
in giving us that abstract form
that we were going for.

1088
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:12,160
Helen - not so much.

1089
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,000
Helen's was beautifully decorated,

1090
00:51:14,040 --> 00:51:17,120
but you didn't get a sense that
the pieces had been changed much.

1091
00:51:17,160 --> 00:51:18,840
This is a very important decision

1092
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:21,240
because, next week,
we're going into the semifinals.

1093
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,800
Who do you think has reached the end
of their time here in the pottery?

1094
00:51:24,840 --> 00:51:27,040
It's a really tough one, isn't it?
It's really tough.

1095
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:30,800
Helen did a really great make.
But is it really what we asked for?

1096
00:51:30,840 --> 00:51:33,840
You know, some of the other potters
have been far more ambitious.

1097
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:37,680
So, Helen is at risk.
Anyone else? Maybe Jon.

1098
00:51:37,720 --> 00:51:41,240
Practically, that coffee pot
really didn't pour very well.

1099
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,280
Well, if you're talking
about function,

1100
00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:44,640
then surely Caitlin?

1101
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,480
Absolutely. She's at risk, as well.

1102
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:49,600
So, who do you think is in line
for Potter of the Week?

1103
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,760
Well, for me,
Lois has to be up there.

1104
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:54,800
Yeah, and James could
just about be in the mix.

1105
00:51:54,840 --> 00:51:58,680
Well, it sounds to me that you have
a very difficult decision to make,

1106
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:03,120
but you've got to hurry up because
I have five anxious potters up there

1107
00:52:03,160 --> 00:52:05,120
and I don't want them
waiting too long.

1108
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:18,240
What a week, potters!

1109
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,280
We know how difficult it's been,

1110
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,400
and you've all done so,
so brilliantly.

1111
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:28,280
The judges have taken a long time
because it has been very difficult,

1112
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,480
but they have made their decision.

1113
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,480
Potter of the Week goes to...

1114
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,080
..Lois.

1115
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,760
Well done! Thank you! Well done!

1116
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:45,000
Look at you! Is that
a little hug to yourself?

1117
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,520
OK, now the really,
really difficult part,

1118
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:53,360
which I know agonised our judges,
and please do take that to heart.

1119
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:55,520
It was very difficult this week.

1120
00:52:55,560 --> 00:52:58,920
The potter who will be leaving us
this week is...

1121
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:06,000
..Helen.

1122
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,800
I'm so sorry, Helen.

1123
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,240
No, no, it's absolutely fine.

1124
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:15,360
It's just been an absolute hoot.
Thank you so much.

1125
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:18,880
From start to finish - brilliant.
Aw, come here!

1126
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:20,840
You're going to be so missed!

1127
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:24,120
I can't lie -
I'm a little bit relieved.

1128
00:53:24,160 --> 00:53:26,840
I'd begun to feel out of my league.

1129
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:28,840
Yeah, it just didn't fit the brief

1130
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:30,720
because I possibly
couldn't have done it

1131
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,720
without coffee
coming out of every orifice.

1132
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,520
Orif-if-ice. Orif... Hole.

1133
00:53:38,720 --> 00:53:41,560
Aw, thank you! Thank you!
You've been fantastic.

1134
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:44,440
Couldn't stop laughing.
It was just brilliant!

1135
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,600
Yeah, hanging on there a bit longer.

1136
00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:49,360
It's amazing
what you can get away with

1137
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:51,760
with a bit of a blag
and a bit of planning, so...

1138
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,000
Well done. Well done, mate.

1139
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,160
In all the weeks,
I've really gotten to know Helen,

1140
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,520
and I have so much respect for her.

1141
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,440
Like, she has
so much wisdom with her.

1142
00:54:02,480 --> 00:54:06,720
And a fantastic illustrator -
her decorations are just stunning.

1143
00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:08,720
Thank you, Rich. Thank you.

1144
00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,160
Helen's coffee set,
I would love to use.

1145
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,400
It was beautifully made.
It just lacked that ambition.

1146
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:16,760
But these are the narrow margins
we're dealing with

1147
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,560
and, unfortunately,
it just wasn't Helen's week.

1148
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:24,240
And, as Helen makes her way home,
Lois's radically altered coffee set

1149
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:28,000
becomes her third piece
to enter the Throw Down gallery.

1150
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:32,800
I'm very happy. I'm also, like,
just really overwhelmed with emotion

1151
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,960
for everyone else, as well. Like,
we all really put a lot into that.

1152
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:38,840
Lois really does give us everything.

1153
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:41,320
You know, that organic kind of form

1154
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,000
that she created
for the handle of the coffee pot

1155
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:46,440
could so easily
have gone badly wrong for her,

1156
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,960
but it was really lovely to hold
and pick up, and it looked good.

1157
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:53,160
The fact that I'm in the semifinals,

1158
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,440
it's wow, isn't it? Yeah.

1159
00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:58,360
Ooh!

1160
00:54:58,400 --> 00:55:00,920
Next time... Oh,
I've got to just go for this.

1161
00:55:00,960 --> 00:55:04,000
..the potters face a massive
twin sink and tile set challenge...

1162
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,240
This is me trying to up my game
because it's the semifinal.

1163
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:09,800
..and a delicate
decoration spot test.

1164
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:11,840
Have you ever seen me stressed out?

1165
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:13,640
Who will clean up
ready for the final...

1166
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:16,240
I am coping. Ah!

1167
00:55:16,280 --> 00:55:19,120
..and whose chances
are disappearing down the drain?

1168
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,520
They're a bit smaller
than the rest of the guys'.

1169
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:25,280
But, you know, us small-handed
people need to wash our hands, too.

1170
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,680
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