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00:01Amazing! Look at this!
00:02We started with 12...
00:04For all potters, Gladstone is like our Mecca.
00:06It's our church, our cathedral.
00:08And over the last nine weeks,
00:10the potters have wowed us with spectacular ceramics.
00:13This is what the show's all about.
00:15From scrumptious soup sets...
00:16These have far exceeded my expectations.
00:19...to wonderful wall-mounted water fountains.
00:22Hey! Oh, look at that!
00:24They brought animals to life in 1,000-degree heat...
00:27Boom!
00:27Raku! Raku!
00:29...and tears of joy to the pottery.
00:32Just a couple of blokes crying over a jug!
00:35As each week, someone had to depart.
00:38I would have been really good if you hadn't have brought me jug!
00:41Now for Finn.
00:43It actually blows my mind that I'm here now.
00:46Elham.
00:47Sleeves rolled up. Serious mode now, isn't it?
00:50And Anne Harrod.
00:51There's a lot of pressure, but it should be pressure,
00:53because it's a big deal.
00:54Just two challenges remain
00:56to decide who will be crowned Britain's best home potter.
01:02Welcome to the final of the Great Pottery Throwdown!
01:21We're all in the room to make it.
01:24So just light up the fire.
01:27Down to the wire.
01:30Down to the wire.
01:30Down to the wire.
01:36Would you have believed it if someone told you week one you'd be walking in here today?
01:40I don't know. After week one especially, I was like...
01:43It's a dead heat approaching the final finish line.
01:46Finn.
01:47Featuring three potters.
01:49And Harrod.
01:50With two potter of the week wins each.
01:52Elham.
01:54After a nervy start.
01:56Freeze.
01:57And being new to the wheel.
01:58Oh, look, everyone's just walking into the driving room like...
02:01Elham has grown throughout the competition.
02:04You seem to sort of improve every week.
02:06You really do seem to improve.
02:08Her intricate repeating patterns have been a regular highlight.
02:11Your decoration is just extraordinary.
02:13It's beautiful.
02:15And the momentum of her semi-final potter of the week win...
02:18For me, you've learnt the most out of the whole process.
02:22...sees her progression peaking at the perfect time.
02:25There's a chance for anyone to win.
02:27Like, it's whatever you do this week.
02:29But winning that trophy.
02:31I am here for that.
02:32Get me in there.
02:33I'll be rolling my slab like this.
02:36Have you had to calculate measurements?
02:39No.
02:39Of course not.
02:40Have you met Finn?
02:41For Finn, being the man with no plan...
02:44I don't even know if this is going to work, to be honest with you.
02:46...has turned out to be an impeccable approach.
02:48That is gorgeous.
02:50Really, really well made.
02:52His aversion to making the same thing twice means he rarely practices properly.
02:56Kind of just winging it to some extent and making it up as I go.
02:59But his attention to detail has resulted in some astonishing bills.
03:03It's an absolute feast for the eyes.
03:05I think it's fantastic, lovey.
03:07It's fantastic.
03:08And a rare judges high five.
03:10Coming round for a high five.
03:11I can't even speak.
03:13You've smashed it.
03:14It's awesome.
03:15Oh my gosh.
03:15I'm ready in spirit, but in usual fashion, the ideas are still marinating.
03:22Winning would be absolutely huge.
03:24Mind-blowing, actually.
03:25I think it's quite simple, but there's so much going on in it.
03:28Simple?
03:29Really?
03:30With detailed designs and decorative work.
03:32You want to get it all in.
03:34Anne Harrod has dazzled the judges throughout.
03:37It's brilliant, lovey.
03:38I don't.
03:39It's fantastic.
03:40Despite struggling with second challenges.
03:42It's just full on collapsing.
03:44I'm going to be last.
03:45And self-confidence.
03:46This could turn out looking absolutely horrific.
03:48Looking inside herself for her portrait sculpture.
03:52That is fantastic.
03:54A celebration of you.
03:56Finally showed her just what she is capable of in this competition.
04:00We're going into the final now and we've all won part of the week twice.
04:04So it's anyone's game, you know, so I could win it.
04:13Hello, finalists.
04:15Well done on getting here.
04:17You must be so proud.
04:19For your final main make challenge, the judges and I would like you to make a model stage.
04:28Judges, for the last time, any words of wisdom for our finalists?
04:32Well, we'd like you to be inspired by the famous 19th century Staffordshire figure groups
04:37and create an elaborate miniature model stage.
04:40It should feature a selection of characters as well as scenic backdrops and set furniture.
04:45And we'd really like your stages to come to life so the figures and the scenery should be moveable.
04:50Give us imagination and wonder.
04:53We want your stage to tell us your story.
04:55Something meaningful that reflects your life and personality.
04:58Now, the majority of this build is a slab build, but we really encourage you to give us as many
05:03skills as you possibly can.
05:05So think about how you can incorporate coiling, sculpting and throwing as well as plenty of colour, sprigs and relief.
05:12We want to be wowed. This is the final.
05:15Oh, fantastic. I really, really can't wait to see what you do.
05:18Potters, you have been given seven and a half hours to make and refine your model stages.
05:25And your time, for the last time, starts now!
05:30Potters get potting!
05:33The final!
05:35Sleeves rolled up.
05:37Serious mode now, isn't it?
05:39I'm so excited to be in the final.
05:41If it works the way that I've designed, I'll be really proud of myself because I've never made anything like
05:46this before.
05:46Honestly, just really looking forward to today.
05:48Probably change it, rip bits off, move stuff around.
05:51It kind of worked until now, so...
05:55Rich! The final! Here we are!
05:58The challenge is so celebratory.
06:01We've asked our potters to be fully inspired by the early 19th century Staffordshire figure groups,
06:05and what a treat to have one right in front of us.
06:08I mean, we're keen that their stages really come alive by way of individual elements moving.
06:12Yeah, absolutely. At least two moveable pieces of scenery.
06:16At least six, preferably more, characters.
06:19One of them has to be them, because we want them to set the stage of their life and their
06:24personality.
06:25All of this really wants to feel like a culmination of all of their time in the pottery
06:29and all of the skills that they've learnt and picked up along the way.
06:32You know, using the wheel as a tool, using slabs, using hand-building.
06:35We want to get a sense that they've used every single second of that seven and a half hours.
06:40It really wants to be a celebration of them in the final and a celebration of what they can do
06:45with the clay.
06:45Well, the stage has been set. Let's hope they put on a show that we really love.
06:49Yeah. And which one of our potters is going to get a standing ovation?
06:56Hi, lovey. Hello. Hello, Elham.
06:58Coming into the final as our Potter of the Week. Yeah, absolutely.
07:02Well, tell us about your design this week.
07:04It's called the Palace of Stormlight. Sounds very extravagant. Yeah.
07:07Based on home. Home can really be theatre sometimes, especially with Kith.
07:11It's that real jump from, like, chaos to calm.
07:14Yeah, how fabulous. I notice here it says bottom storage drawer. Yeah.
07:19A drawer. So, well, I thought, how do I incorporate a support and something useful?
07:23So, chaos will just go in there.
07:26Elham's slab-built stage setting of a calm Sunday roast in the kitchen
07:30will be shattered by the chaos unleashed from the drawer below.
07:33Changeable scenic views move from a sunny day to a gloomy evening
07:37as her hand-sculpted children run riot around dirty clothes and dishes,
07:41spill tea and nappies on the floor.
07:43What a lovely theme. Yeah, how fabulous.
07:46And is this parquet flooring? I will show you.
07:48Wait! Oh, my God.
07:50My husband's a dentist, so he prints retainers with a 3D printer.
07:53Yeah. And I was like, erm, do something for me.
07:56Some people are like, oh, where's my retainers? I need my next one.
07:58And I'll be like this.
08:00Elham was in the final, so, you know.
08:03Well, look, good luck with it all.
08:04Can't wait to see it. Yeah, it looks great. Thanks.
08:08I've pre-cut some templates. I'm cutting the slabs around
08:11and I've worked them out so that they should, when they're ready to be put together,
08:15just slot together really nicely.
08:17To create a stage worthy of their most important make of the competition.
08:20So many slabs.
08:22As well as cutting to precise measurements to ensure the correct fit,
08:25the potters also need to make sure their slabs are the right consistency.
08:29Slab building has a tendency to warp, so I'm just praying that that doesn't happen.
08:35As any areas drying unevenly run the risk of both warping and cracking.
08:40There's no room for cracks this week. It's the final.
08:43But while Elham and Ann Harrod use slabs to build box structures in the form of a traditional theatre.
08:48I'm hand sculpting some trees and I'm throwing the main body of the base.
08:52Finn is taking his stage to the great outdoors.
08:55My design is based between my family in Cornwall
08:58and my now inherited family in Canada on Marnie's side.
09:02And Mona and Jordy, they're my cheerleaders from the other side of the pond basically.
09:05So yeah, they've been amazing.
09:07So I wanted to base it on kind of like the Alice through the Looking Glass idea
09:10that there's sort of two worlds but we're sort of connected through nature.
09:14Finn's reversible open air stage will sit on a thrown and altered base,
09:18draped in slabs and framed with extruded and sculpted trees.
09:21Marnie's family will be looking at them amongst the sprigged engine houses of Cornwall
09:25before changeable slab scenery see Finn, Marnie and their dogs gazing across the pond
09:30to alpine trees in a cabin by the lake in Canada.
09:34Fantastic. So how many moving objects do you think you're going to be doing?
09:37Are they moveable as well or are they...
09:39I haven't really decided.
09:41Hey!
09:42Don't be asking such a silly question. He doesn't know yet.
09:46It's enough scope that if it sort of pops off during that,
09:48I'll be like, yeah, it's totally moveable.
09:49That was the plan.
09:49Yeah.
09:50It was just last night that I decided I was going to throw the base.
09:53It was going to be slab.
09:54Brilliant.
09:55Yeah.
09:55That's my boy.
09:56Well, look, good luck with it all.
09:58We'll see you later on.
10:00It's really exciting.
10:00Yeah.
10:01Well, we're excited that you're excited.
10:03Great.
10:03Cheers.
10:09The drawing room is open!
10:15I need to put them in the drawing room, let them firm up.
10:18While structural pieces begin drying.
10:20So right now, I'm just throwing off the hump.
10:22I'm throwing my characters.
10:24To be able to tell their stories on stage,
10:27the Potters will need the stars of the show.
10:29So this will be Mona in Canada,
10:31just kind of making a really rough sort of shape,
10:34letting them firm up a bit and then I'll carve some clothes
10:37and some stuff back into them.
10:38I've chosen cone shapes.
10:39Kids, husband, mum, dad, me.
10:42Anybody else making an appearance?
10:44Maybe new best friends?
10:47Postman.
10:49OK.
10:50That sounds good.
10:51While the Potters all sculpt their own families.
10:54This will be my best friend, Luke.
10:57Anne Howard's story involves an additional one.
11:00Luke and Josh, they're two of the people I met
11:01when I first moved to London.
11:03I worked as a wiggy.
11:05Wham!
11:05Wigs, hair and make-up in musical theatre.
11:08Moving, you know, from my family in South Wales
11:11and going from like the countryside to like a massive city.
11:15They basically became my family.
11:17And my siblings and Josh and Luke,
11:19they've all been individually just so supportive of anything that I've done.
11:23And they think I can do things that I don't even think I can do.
11:26Like genuinely, they just have this belief in me.
11:29And I'm just so grateful to have them in my life.
11:32Anne Howard's slab-built theatre wig room will double as her Whitechapel bedroom
11:36and be shared with Luke and Josh.
11:39Her first backdrop will be removed to feature a painted London skyline,
11:42which will then share the sky with her final act,
11:45coming full circle back to Wales
11:47and being reunited with the family she adores.
11:50I love that same sky idea.
11:52It's the idea of like you might not be in the same place,
11:55but you're all in the same place at the same time.
11:57Oh, that's marvellous.
11:59I'm going to be throwing the characters and the wig blocks off the hump as well.
12:03Well, we'll see you at Christmas then.
12:05It's really lovely, but lots to get done.
12:07There's a lot to get done.
12:09Break a leg.
12:13Potters, you're halfway through! Halfway through! Yay! Yay!
12:20Oh, my God. So much to do.
12:23I've manipulated.
12:24I basically put a solid support in there,
12:26because there's going to be so much weight on top.
12:28Need to crock on now.
12:29Throwing my little parts off the hump.
12:31As well as having many items to make.
12:33Three done, 700 to go.
12:36And textures to apply.
12:37I've just got some lino that I've carved with a fake wood effect.
12:41I'm just doing floorboards.
12:43The potters need to utilise as many different techniques
12:46within their stages as possible.
12:48We're doing slab building.
12:49Throwing.
12:50Hand sculpting.
12:51And now, sprig work. All fun.
12:54A little bit of everything.
12:55As with the curtain drawing on the competition.
12:58So this is an engine house.
12:59There's one literally on my road.
13:01This is their final chance to impress the judges.
13:04So, are you content at this point in the make?
13:07Er, I'm working for my list.
13:09I've got a list of it.
13:10You have a list?
13:11Doesn't mean I'm really looking at it,
13:12but it's kind of fair in the background.
13:13Oh, okay, please, don't change.
13:14Trust me, I won't be.
13:16No.
13:16It could be written down and I'll still ignore it.
13:20Finn is a really creative, busy character.
13:24Pottery, he's only been doing for a couple of years,
13:27and yet he just loves it.
13:29I think what's potentially got him to the final is he may not go the conventional route.
13:35His favourite saying is, there's no plan A without a plan B.
13:38He's always loved making things, doing things, trying out, experimenting and exploring.
13:44To get to the final has been amazing for him.
13:47So proud of what he's achieved, amazingly proud of him, yeah, yeah.
13:52Take a good look, Dad.
13:53Oh, no.
13:54Good luck.
13:55He's always saying how proud of us he is of doing certain things,
13:59and to hear him get this far is insane.
14:01Like, really, really, really proud of him.
14:02I'm so pleased that you've got to the final.
14:05Yeah, I definitely wouldn't have managed any of this, I don't think,
14:07if you guys hadn't have been so supportive with it.
14:09You know, everybody's just done so much for me.
14:11I've been looking out for the whole tattoo studio,
14:14but having to deal with everything, so yeah, he better win.
14:17I love you.
14:18I love you too.
14:22So, this is the tree layer for the Canadian side.
14:25I've got one of the Cornwall scenes done,
14:27but I've still got so much to do.
14:29I'm making a little logo for my theatre.
14:32It's like a little half-mask with juggling hands
14:35to represent, like, just juggling everything at home.
14:39My mum and Asana are at home each week having the kids,
14:43so everyone is doing their bit to let me be her.
14:46You know they say it takes a village to raise kids.
14:49That's my village, and...
14:53Yeah, family to me is everything.
14:55Oh, you've got a massive tower of squares there.
14:59Elham is... I'm using the word inspiration
15:01because that's the definition of her name.
15:03Her name actually means inspiration.
15:05She's a great inspiration to our kids,
15:07and she's an amazing mum.
15:08I am not surprised at all that she's made it to the final,
15:11because I've seen how she's put her blood, sweat and tears
15:14into every single stage.
15:15She's regularly practised for the show
15:17and sacrificed being with the kids.
15:21I think Elham needs pottery in her life to channel something within herself
15:25that I think, as people, we can lose through life and its ups and downs.
15:30Getting to the final for Elham is an affirmation
15:33and a validation of her hard work,
15:35and for her children to be able to see her as Elham
15:40and this is her own individual achievement is so positive.
15:44Yusuf, which one is that? Who are you drawing?
15:47Me?
15:48Yeah.
15:48Ooh, I like my eyelashes.
15:50I don't think I can verbalise how pride I am of her.
15:53Not only in getting to the pottery throw-down final,
15:55but just generally since I met her.
15:58I've struck gold with Elham.
15:59I'm sure she will strike gold with the trophy as well.
16:03This is for the cobbled bricks from the outside of the theatre.
16:06It's lovely.
16:07So, how do you wish me to address you now, Madam Finalist?
16:11Queen, not because this is a palace.
16:14Queen Finalist.
16:15Yes, I'll take that.
16:16And you were Potter of the Week last week.
16:17I was.
16:18All hail Queen Finalist.
16:20Thanks.
16:23My small moveable props are going to be wigs.
16:26Being a wiggy is a very similar environment to this room here.
16:29It's the adrenaline of the show
16:31and you're working with really, really talented people.
16:34It's quite overwhelming being the final.
16:37There's a lot of pressure, but it should be pressure
16:39because the reality of what it is, it's a big deal.
16:42It's a big deal.
16:44Which one's earlier? I don't know.
16:46I'm incredibly proud of Bangharad,
16:48of where she's got to and just where she's come from.
16:51She was always creative and when she was in London,
16:54she just loved being in theatres and doing wigs and make-up.
16:57But overnight she lost her job because of Covid.
17:00And when she did come back, she was kind of like lost.
17:02I think she has poured everything into pottery
17:04and it has been like an outlet for her creativeness.
17:07Life can be a lot sometimes.
17:09And when things have been really difficult,
17:11as well as my siblings, my friends,
17:13it's been a known thing like I can rely on.
17:17But when I did the self-portrait sculpture,
17:19that was the first thing that I made.
17:21Believe in herself.
17:22We know she can do these things,
17:24but I'm hoping where she's got to
17:26will hopefully make her realise that she is very special
17:29and very talented at what she does.
17:31We're all just incredibly proud of her.
17:34You onto wigs?
17:35Yeah, onto wigs.
17:36Get all the fiddlier things out of the way
17:38and then crack on with the actual...
17:40Constructing. Yeah.
17:41Fab.
17:42You're all right, you'll get there.
17:43We'll get there, we'll all get there.
17:45There's five hours gone!
17:46Two and a half hours left!
17:48Hurry up!
17:49Oh my God!
17:50That's not very professional.
17:52Who are you?
17:54I am going to assemble now.
17:57I just want to really make sure that these fit.
18:00I'm going to park the walls to the join.
18:02We need to come together nicely.
18:04Slipping, scoring, slipping, scoring.
18:06Their stage structures need connecting
18:08before the clay gets too dry.
18:10It's the time management between making sure
18:13that stuff is dry and joining it at the right time.
18:15Or they'll run the risk of cracking
18:17or separating during firing.
18:19I am doing a little extra with these joins.
18:22I'm adding some coils.
18:23My dad would be proud, he's a civil engineer.
18:25He'd probably be like, you're doing that wrong.
18:27There will be no stage if these pop off
18:30because I've got no roof, there's nothing there.
18:32That's anything I learnt working in theatre.
18:35Even if the stage collapsed, the show must go on.
18:38These are the little pockets to put the sky scenery in.
18:41The moveable scenery is crucial
18:43to the success of their final makes.
18:45I would usually try not to move the slabs
18:47as much as I have done.
18:48So I'm just a bit nervous that we might have a bit of warpage.
18:51If they don't fit correctly as they slot in and out,
18:54the potters won't be able to tell their stories.
18:57The backdrop panels slide in to be held up by the tree,
19:00so it's like a walk through nature.
19:02There's a theatre.
19:03Oh my God, there's an actual theatre.
19:04OK.
19:05With their structures in place...
19:06I need to carve some texture into it.
19:08I want floral patterns.
19:10The potters now need to add the all-important detail
19:13to complement their overall themes.
19:15I'm just gonna get a couple of these leaves put on,
19:18so they've got a little nod to Canada with the little maple leaves.
19:21So I have sprigs that I made from my husband's dental putty.
19:25Nice cosy little fireplace.
19:27Oh my God, I've got to do all my blooming sprigs.
19:29How are we getting on?
19:30Chaotic at the moment.
19:31I just do so many sprigs, it's not even funny.
19:33Do you want me to go?
19:34Yeah.
19:35Yeah.
19:35Can I leave the cameraman here watching?
19:37Oh, sure.
19:38You have to.
19:39Would a cup of tea be a good support for you?
19:41No.
19:42Oh, yeah.
19:42It's fine.
19:43Probably worse.
19:44Probably.
19:48Potters, you've half an hour left.
19:49Half an hour left.
19:51I'm gonna have sprigs all around the theatre.
19:53The one I'm putting on at the moment is the first opera I did,
19:56which was Aida.
19:57All the shows I've worked on have, like,
19:59just really lovely memories.
20:00This is my little campfire for the Canada scene.
20:03What's left?
20:03You've done a lot of work.
20:04Where's the ceramic drawer?
20:06It's there.
20:07Oh, lovely.
20:07I need to put a little candle on it.
20:08Oh, do you want to see my kitchen?
20:09Yes, please.
20:13That's delightful.
20:14Do the doors open?
20:16No.
20:16Oh.
20:18That's all right.
20:18It's just the final.
20:21This is a wig trundle.
20:23When you go on tour with wigs or wardrobe,
20:24you have a trundle which you kind of tore the wigs in.
20:27How much time have we got?
20:28Potters, you've ten minutes left.
20:30Use them wisely.
20:31Ten minutes left now.
20:33Oh, my God.
20:35Realistically, it looks like I might have to give the stairs a miss,
20:38which is a real, real shame.
20:41All right, just be calm.
20:42I don't have time to think,
20:44so I'm literally just trying to get as much carved down as possible.
20:47There's a lot of detail and still carve out.
20:50It's the usual, a sprint to the finish.
20:52Last-minute support for the front, because without stairs,
20:55I need something there to hold that up.
20:56I do not want a wonky stage.
20:58I'm just putting texture into some wigs.
21:01I just need to get some last-minute details in.
21:04I'm just carving out some texture in the curtains in the last few minutes,
21:09seconds, whatever we have left.
21:11Last-minute potters.
21:12Last one.
21:13Last wig.
21:14Start thinking about bringing your model stages into the drying room.
21:19Try and lift the damn thing.
21:20This is so heavy.
21:23Be careful.
21:25Brilliant.
21:25Well done.
21:27Nearly there.
21:28I don't realise how much these things.
21:29Wait till you've picked them up.
21:31Elham.
21:32Okay.
21:33Are you done?
21:35Come on now.
21:36Fabulous.
21:38Oh, my God.
21:39This way.
21:40I'll take the bottom.
21:4210, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
21:50Tools down.
21:51Well done.
21:53Seven and a half hours of work.
21:55Are you okay?
21:56Yeah.
21:57I'm not.
22:00Well done.
22:01I'm so impressed.
22:02Potter is dismissed.
22:04Oh, God.
22:06I just can't believe the make of the final challenge is done.
22:08I can't believe that's just happened.
22:09Because I didn't think I could do that.
22:11But then I haven't thought I'd been able to do everything that we've had to do.
22:13I hope I've done enough.
22:15Like, I couldn't do any more in that time.
22:17I probably am far too adventurous with what I think I'm going to do,
22:19but hopefully it all comes out in one piece.
22:22I didn't realise how heavy the entire thing was
22:23up until the point I had to carry that into the drawing room
22:26and then went,
22:27well, there's quite a lot of clay there.
22:28I'm happy with the amount of props that I have and the detail.
22:31It's the main structure, I think.
22:33You will be making a pot to show us how it's done.
22:37Master Potter himself, Keith Primer-Jones.
22:39Keith, please take the wheel.
22:41Okay.
22:42We have our colour and you've got three kilos of clay.
22:46Centre up the clay.
22:47I'm just going to get enough clay at the top to give me a really nice effect.
22:51If the surface isn't dried off enough, does the slip just mix with the clay?
22:55Yeah.
22:55Make a mushy mess?
22:56It does, which is not what we're after.
22:58And then just start applying that slip and you want a nice, even coating.
23:03Oh, that's very satisfying.
23:05It really is, yeah.
23:06I'll then take my heat gun again.
23:08You want to dry off that slip.
23:12Now I apply the sodium silicate.
23:14Get that brush really nicely charged up to give a nice, even coating.
23:18It's like a varnish over it and then it all starts cracking.
23:23Yeah.
23:24Once you've done that, back on the heat gun.
23:27I want to dry this off so you can't see that sheen anymore.
23:31The drier it is, the better effects you get.
23:34But too dry, the pot will be too firm to actually get that bulbous form.
23:39Dun, dun, dun!
23:42Now I'm just going to form that outer shape.
23:44So at this point, you can't touch the outside of the pot because you'll ruin the effect.
23:48So you've got to throw it from the inside.
23:52It looks very counterintuitive to not have your other hand guiding what's going on on the inside.
23:58It does.
23:59And it is.
24:00This particular process is really the main crux of this whole challenge.
24:04You only have one go at this.
24:06Well, it is the final, I guess.
24:08Just one more pull.
24:10It's the beginning to crack.
24:11Oh, my gosh.
24:12Ooh.
24:13Wow.
24:13There you go.
24:14It's like magic.
24:16What Rich and I are really looking for is a nice bulbous form, a good purposeful rim,
24:22and a really lovely effect that we've got here.
24:24Fantastic.
24:25Thank you very, very much.
24:26All right, then, potters, back to your benches, please.
24:30Now, this is going to be judged blind, so you know what that means.
24:34Get out of here, boys!
24:36Good luck, guys.
24:37Good luck.
24:39You have been given 25 minutes to create your sodium silicate pot.
24:47And your time starts now.
24:50Remove the hessian.
24:52We've got this.
24:54Last second challenge.
24:56Never done this before, but it looks fun.
24:59Me and second challenges have not been good, so it'd be nice to leave with one last good throw.
25:05Are you happy that your final second challenge is a throw down?
25:08I'm kind of happy.
25:10Yeah.
25:10What are you worried about?
25:11Altering a form from the inside out.
25:14Yeah.
25:14I'll try my best.
25:16That's bullish.
25:17Then what?
25:18Pull up.
25:20I've just got to get the form up into a cylinder.
25:23The hardest part, I think, is just going to be getting the rim on there the way that they want
25:25it.
25:26Come on.
25:27Right.
25:27We'll just do this.
25:30Okay.
25:30You've got it off quickly.
25:33Is this an effect that you like?
25:35I think it looks really cool.
25:36It reminds me of scorched earth.
25:38Or my skin if I don't apply enough moisturizer.
25:43He wants a nice rim.
25:45That's the best it's going to get.
25:46Sorry, Keith.
25:47Just drying it out a bit to get slip on.
25:49Happy with the shape.
25:50I've already started to get it to go out a bit.
25:53Slip's going on.
25:54I'm just trying to apply evenly and just make sure that there's no gaps.
25:57I've got the structure right, so as long as I can get this effect to work on here, then it
26:01should be all right.
26:02It would be great if I could win this.
26:04Potters, you're halfway through.
26:06Ah!
26:07Halfway through.
26:09I've gone one layer down and doing one layer back up now.
26:12And then was it dry again?
26:14So that I can apply the sodium.
26:19I don't know if that's enough.
26:21I feel like that could do with a bit more slip, truth be told.
26:24Could do another layer.
26:25Okay.
26:25Did Keith do that?
26:27No, he did not.
26:27And I know that's bad.
26:28I just want you to know that if it goes wrong, I will say I told you so.
26:32You can say.
26:32You can absolutely say.
26:34I'm just adding the sodium silicate.
26:36It's kind of almost like a syrupy type stuff.
26:39This is definitely another first.
26:41Oh my gosh.
26:42How is it drying?
26:43It looks to be all right.
26:44I'm hoping where I've started for bowl shakes, I'm just going to follow that out and then bring it back
26:48in on itself.
26:49I'll probably just go for it, shouldn't I?
26:51I am now bellying out the pot.
26:53What's going to be the hardest thing about this?
26:55I obviously can't touch the outside of the pot, otherwise it's going to ruin the whole effect of it.
26:59Just having to anchor my left arm off my right arm and it's just hanging in there, you know.
27:04Oh my God, I don't know how to do this.
27:06How am I meant to do this?
27:06Like literally.
27:07Ah!
27:08Is this hand that I'll use?
27:10No, it's not.
27:13I've never done anything like this before.
27:15It's quite scary.
27:16Can't touch the outside.
27:17Nope.
27:18No touching the outside.
27:19My legs are shaking.
27:22Five minutes left, Potters.
27:23Do you have five minutes left?
27:27Do we have a crack there?
27:29Oh my gosh!
27:31Anyone got their crack effect?
27:33Elham, I know.
27:34Yeah, I do.
27:36Finn?
27:36Yes, a thumbs up.
27:38And Harry?
27:38Not yet.
27:39Don't let me down.
27:40Ah!
27:41Oh, there is!
27:42There is!
27:42Yay!
27:46Potters, final minute for the final second challenge.
27:50I need this to be more bulbous.
27:52I kind of feel like I'm just going to leave it like that.
27:54I don't want to ruin it.
27:55It's really hard to see the shape when you're so close.
27:58You kind of want to step back and have a look, but I don't have time.
28:00I think I'm going to go back in and try and get a little bit more clay out of the
28:03base.
28:04Ten seconds!
28:05Ooh!
28:06Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
28:12Well done, well done, well done.
28:13Step away from your pots.
28:16Well done.
28:17Well done, guys.
28:18Please bring them up to the front.
28:21Keith and Rich will now judge the Potters' sodium silicate pots.
28:25Wow!
28:26Isn't that amazing?
28:27Excellent.
28:27And they have no idea whose is whose.
28:31The sodium silicate application is very good.
28:33It's really worked well.
28:34Lots of lovely cracking.
28:35Yeah, lovely.
28:36The rim could have been a bit more pronounced.
28:38And if they just got a bit more of a bulbous shape down the bottom there,
28:42just to make the whole shape fuller.
28:43But great use of the clay.
28:44Really good. Excellent.
28:45Moving on.
28:46This is a really considered rim.
28:47That's brilliant.
28:48Nice bulbous shape down the bottom.
28:50Yeah, I mean, lovely proportions between the bottom and the top.
28:52Really lovely cracking there.
28:54Excellent.
28:54Last but not least, a nice shape to it.
28:57Lovely cracking.
28:58There's a bit of a rim there.
29:00Could have been a bit more pronounced.
29:01Could have maybe just been a bit bolder, just to give you a more bulbous shape.
29:05But really, really good effort.
29:07Well done.
29:08The judges will now rank the finalists from worst to first.
29:12In third place is this one.
29:18It's not mine.
29:19Yeah, it's mine.
29:20Oh, it's yours.
29:21Oh, right.
29:22Could have just been a bit more bulbous.
29:24But no, I mean, brilliant effort.
29:26So, yeah.
29:26Well done.
29:27In second place is this one.
29:33Nice bulbous form.
29:34Really, really lovely effects on there.
29:36Nice bit of throwing.
29:37So, in first place, Finn.
29:40Cheers.
29:40Well done, Finn.
29:41Well done.
29:43Lovely rim on there.
29:45Really competently thrown.
29:46You started that bulbous form right down at the bottom of the base.
29:50Lovely.
29:50Well done.
29:51Cheers.
29:51Well done.
29:54Finn, congratulations.
29:55But congratulations to the three of you.
29:57Potter's dismissed.
30:00It's really exciting to get a win.
30:01I was really happy with what it made.
30:03And the judges really happened too.
30:04So, that's a plus.
30:06Obviously, coming third gives you less hope.
30:09But my main make might really be a wow.
30:13You never know.
30:15Second challenge is done.
30:16I just feel like now I just have to do a really good decorating job.
30:19I just hope everything turns out okay.
30:29It's day two of the final make.
30:31The potter's stages have cooled down after their first bisque firing and are ready to be decorated.
30:36I'm assuming I've got pieces to decorate.
30:39I have something.
30:39Oh, it's still upright.
30:41But how the potter's bills have fared in the kiln is yet to be revealed.
30:46The one thing I won't miss about this experience is that Hessian.
30:49And I never want to see Hessian again.
30:51It's going to be a hard one because all three of us, decorating's I think.
30:55I do want to win now.
30:56Like, I'm here and it's like, you know, it's this close.
31:01Welcome back, potters.
31:03Your model theatres have been bisque fired and are ready for decoration.
31:07Keith, any advice for our potters?
31:09We want you to show us a wide range of decorative skills.
31:12A cohesive plan is the best way to bring everything together successfully
31:15and bring that model stage to life.
31:18Don't rush.
31:18Apply that glaze carefully and make the most of all of your hard work.
31:22Just enjoy it and get theatrical.
31:24Theatrical music to my ears.
31:26All right, then.
31:27You've been given a range of glazes and oxides and four and a half hours to use them.
31:32And your time starts now.
31:34Remove the Hessian.
31:36I don't want to.
31:42And how are everything okay?
31:44Not as bad as I thought it could have been.
31:46That's the spirit.
31:47Finn?
31:48There's a crack along that back panel, but nothing too bad, I don't think.
31:53Okay.
31:53Elham?
31:54A little bit of a crap in the base, but nothing horrific.
31:58Fantastic.
31:58Well done, everyone.
31:59Happy decorating.
32:00Yeah.
32:01That makes me happy, seeing these together.
32:04What I'm more nervous about is that we've got major warping on my slabs.
32:08This is meant to go in.
32:11God.
32:12Just.
32:14I mean, it's not flushed to the ground, but it's not terrible.
32:18I've just got to decorate them all now.
32:19To help bring their stages to life.
32:22Oh, wow.
32:23That is thick.
32:24The potters have a table full of colourful underglazes and oxides.
32:28I think with this, everything will have a slight blue undertone to it.
32:31I'm hoping to go real with the decoration.
32:34Curtains being red and things like that.
32:35Hi, lovey.
32:36It's all happening here.
32:37It is all happening.
32:38Look at that.
32:39Oh, okay.
32:40I'm hoping to just lodge one of these in for the green fire underneath.
32:43Oh, yeah.
32:43What's happening up here, then?
32:44This is to represent the juggling of life and motherhood and family life and everything.
32:48And see what you're doing there.
32:49And I'm going to give it every single bit of me that I can now.
32:52I think it's brilliant you're still here.
32:54It's amazing.
32:54Yeah, me too, because I only back-cooked for three weeks.
32:57I was like, don't worry, guys, I'll be home.
32:59The cracks are going to get bigger in the next fire room,
33:02but I can only decorate what I've got.
33:04Hello, Angharad.
33:05Hello.
33:05How are you doing?
33:06Okay.
33:07What's your plan?
33:07You've got the oxides.
33:08So I've got this.
33:09I'm going to be sponging ombre where you blend in between everything.
33:12And have you waxed this?
33:13So I've latexed around the window.
33:15Then I'll peel the latex off.
33:17I'm going to be doing some bubble glazing as well.
33:19So you're going to be adding soap into the glaze
33:21and blowing it with a straw to create bubbles.
33:23Yeah.
33:23It's for my wigs more than anything.
33:24I love the fact that you've remained ambitious.
33:27It's the final.
33:28Yeah.
33:30Just to let you know, guys, an hour has gone.
33:33How nice.
33:34We never get that from you.
33:35There you go.
33:36What a treat.
33:37My strategy is focus on small things and then give that loads of love.
33:41While Elham is focusing on delicate detailing.
33:44Painting oxides and underglazes darker, wiping them back, painting more on, wiping those back.
33:49Yeah, it's a lot of work.
33:50It's not just painting it all once.
33:51Vin and Ann Harrod have started with the bigger picture.
33:54Do you know what? I'm just enjoying it too much.
33:56But equally, I do need to finish what I'm doing.
33:59You've done a lot.
34:01It feels like it.
34:02You've enjoyed it here, though, haven't you?
34:04I've absolutely loved it.
34:04Oh, good.
34:05Yeah, it's been so much fun.
34:06Can I talk to you about your autism?
34:07I imagine things that you have thought haven't been a good trait are actually very helpful.
34:13Yeah.
34:13Not having a plan balances out my ability to understand time.
34:18The things that I can't control, I just have to not think about.
34:21And I think that has given me the sort of internal peace that for so long I didn't have.
34:26Great.
34:26Well, that is beautiful to hear.
34:28And also very fortuitous because this show is now the great dance-offs.
34:33Then I would not be in the final.
34:35Neither would I.
34:36I am planning to slip trail the parts and the outfits on the characters.
34:41The kids are everything to me.
34:43The hard work, but I love them.
34:44So I've painted my Whitechapel High Street scene.
34:47This is a view from the farm that I grew up on.
34:50They were really happy memories.
34:52When I look back, like how lucky we were to be so close to the sea and to have animals
34:57around us all the time.
34:59So lucky.
35:00So this is Mona and Geordie in Canada.
35:02It's been a real privilege, actually, to be accepted into their family.
35:06Since Smiley and I have been together, they've been over once for the last five years we've been trying to
35:10get out to Canada.
35:12Hopefully, next year is the year that we can go.
35:16Potters!
35:16Please don't say an hour because that will be a shock.
35:19One hour left.
35:22100% need to speed up to get this all done.
35:24Do you like my roast dinner?
35:25I love your roast dinner.
35:26Making you hungry?
35:27I am a bit hungry, actually.
35:28I love a nice carrot.
35:30I'm still working on the background pieces.
35:31Everything is really detailed, but I think I'm actually doing okay for time.
35:35They may be my famous last words.
35:36This is a wig trundle and I've got a bed.
35:38Growing up, I would do all of my artwork in my bedroom.
35:42So I hope that the judges see, like, the sentimentality.
35:45All my small pieces are done.
35:47I'm just imagining that pop of red at the front of the theatre.
35:50I need to sit down and watch.
35:53Finishing off my little cottage and around the deer and stuff, there's just lots of little black lines I've added
35:58in.
35:58They're subtle, but they're there.
35:59Now that I've done the wood floor, it looks quite cute.
36:01Are you painting the wood floor brown?
36:03Gray.
36:04Gray, yeah.
36:05It's kind of like contemporary.
36:06Oh, the contemporary theatre with the crack in the floorboards.
36:09Yes, I know it will.
36:10I'm going moody.
36:11So once I wipe this back, I'm going to put a layer of brown underglaze on.
36:15Hopefully just blend together so it's not too stark.
36:18This time call is going to stress me out.
36:20Potters, you've half an hour left.
36:23So you've still got all your characters to do?
36:25I'm a bit behind, but I can do it. It's fine.
36:27Okay.
36:28Oh, God.
36:29I am dabbing on some oxide.
36:31Onto the bricks and the other side of the scenery.
36:34It, like, sits in all the brevices and stuff.
36:36It's really nice.
36:37I'm going to use the monoprinting, so I'm just going to paint paper with some underglaze
36:42and then press it on top of the clay.
36:44The damp will pull it off the sheet and transfer it onto the clay.
36:48I need to actually decorate some people now, don't I?
36:50So I've got me, I've got my older brother, my younger brother, my sister,
36:54and then my two best friends, Luke and Josh.
36:56No pressure.
36:57I am just scraping off the black glaze.
37:00Tonight's performance.
37:01Chaos.
37:02Seven o'clock.
37:03Who is that?
37:04That's my older brother.
37:05Is that my older brother?
37:06No.
37:07I don't know who that is.
37:08Okay.
37:08Monoprinting has worked all right.
37:10Potters, that's ten minutes left.
37:12Okay.
37:12I think I'm actually just going to glaze everything.
37:15Transparent glaze, while milky in appearance when applied...
37:18You're glazed.
37:19Oh, you're not glazed.
37:20...will create a glossy finish and add pop to the potter's decoration once fired.
37:25The drawer is going to be underneath the theatre, so if it does slump,
37:29it won't any glaze under there.
37:30I'm peeling the latex off.
37:33Oh, one minute left now.
37:35What is it?
37:36It's literally slapping it on.
37:37Just a couple of trees.
37:39Any should be done?
37:40Yeah.
37:40Promise me?
37:41Yeah.
37:41Don't break my heart.
37:42This is definitely the closest I've got to not finishing.
37:45Just ten seconds left.
37:46Really?
37:48I have no idea what's going on.
37:50And that's it.
37:51Ah!
37:53Brushes down, step away from your model theatres.
37:56Well done.
37:56That was the last time.
37:58And Harrod, what are you thinking?
38:00I don't know.
38:00I think I'm in shock.
38:02Well, for the last time, potters dismissed.
38:06Off you go.
38:08It's mad that we've just done that.
38:10I know.
38:10That was absolutely bonkers.
38:12Final make is done.
38:14Praying not for more cracks.
38:16I did absolutely everything I could with that time.
38:19Like, every little minute of it.
38:21I've left my little drawer under there.
38:23Perfect.
38:23I'd like to win.
38:25That would be lovely.
38:26You never know.
38:27Just pray that that stays in one piece and we'll see.
38:30How are you feeling?
38:32Exhausted.
38:32I honestly don't know if I could be the winner.
38:35I don't know.
38:36I couldn't have done any more, basically.
38:37It would be that anxious weight of what the Kiln Gods have got in store for us.
38:46Guys.
38:47Last time.
38:48Last time.
38:51It's judgment day.
38:53The stages have undergone their final firing and for the potters, there's nothing more they can do.
38:58I am excited to see my final make.
38:59Dream scenario.
39:00No more warping.
39:02No more cracking.
39:03But I know I did my best.
39:05I think it's anxiety and excitement in equal measure on this front because the end could be that I'm the
39:10winner.
39:11And that would just really be the cherry on top of what's been an amazing experience.
39:16I'm really looking forward to seeing my piece now.
39:18Stand in front of the judges for the last time.
39:20Present your work for the last time.
39:22Like, it has been daunting, but today I'm going to do it with pride because it's my last piece.
39:27And I'm like, do you know what? I'm proud of this journey. I'm proud of what I made.
39:30And here you go.
39:33Wow.
39:34Ooh.
39:36Wow.
39:37There are some more cracks that have opened up.
39:39Massive crack.
39:40Have you?
39:41I think we've all got some cracks.
39:42Yeah.
39:43Massive crack.
39:44But actually, it's still really cute.
39:46So I'm happy.
39:53Your model theatres look absolutely amazing.
39:57I cannot wait to see them.
39:58So I'll stop talking.
40:00Let's get on with the judging, shall we?
40:01Yeah.
40:02Elham, if you could please bring your model stage up to the judges.
40:19Are you pleased with how it's looking?
40:21Do you know, honestly, I'd say it's the proudest piece that I've made here, but it's also the most heartbreaking
40:27too, to see that crack in it.
40:29Well, look, we're going to skirt over the crack.
40:31We'll put a carpet in the middle of the room.
40:33A rug.
40:33Do you know why?
40:37Because there's so much detail.
40:39There's so much to look at.
40:40There's so much to think about.
40:41Wow.
40:41It really is.
40:43It's amazing.
40:44Look at that.
40:45Yes.
40:45It's fabulous.
40:46Yeah, rich.
40:46I mean, this is the thing, I think.
40:49We're always our own worst critics.
40:51And yes, you've got one stress crack.
40:53A little bit of a cropped in the bay.
40:54Well, two minor stress cracks.
40:55Pitches.
40:56But that can't take away from the beauty you've injected into this stage.
41:00There is so much in here that you should be so proud of.
41:02I want the roast dinner.
41:04Yeah.
41:04You've even put a board around every single plate on the table.
41:07Yeah.
41:07That is a beautiful object.
41:09They both are.
41:10I mean, they are exquisite.
41:11I mean, who does that?
41:13Well, Elham does it.
41:14Yeah.
41:14And this is just such a wonderful scene, both of them.
41:17And the fact that you've kept them matte, it looks like theatre canvas.
41:20The scenery for the next scene is in the drawer.
41:22This is the comic.
41:23Yeah, can we have a look at the chaos?
41:24Chaos.
41:24Go on.
41:25Give us chaos.
41:26Does this go the other way around?
41:27Yeah.
41:27They go the dark way around.
41:29Use their phones off the chandelier.
41:31Of course.
41:32So it's nappies all over the place.
41:34There's a spilt tea.
41:35There's a pile of dishes and there's dirty ones.
41:37That's reality, isn't it?
41:38Yeah.
41:38Yeah.
41:39That's a lovely, simple process to do, but really, really effective.
41:42I mean, everything is so immediately recognisable.
41:45I can't believe you've got this much done in that time.
41:48Me neither.
41:50Yeah.
41:50It's really, really lovely, lovely.
41:52Thank you very much.
41:53Well done.
42:04Well, you know what, Finn?
42:05The thing that you notice most about your stage is detail.
42:08We've seen your attention to detail on surface throughout this whole process and this is
42:13just the very definition of you, really.
42:16It's really, really wonderful.
42:17Yeah.
42:18It's just fab.
42:18It's just got such energy.
42:19And I like the fact that you've flipped the whole idea on its head.
42:22Why shouldn't a stage be out in the woods?
42:24I mean, it's a shame that, yeah, you've got a bit of a stress crack, but it's just got such
42:28a lovely atmosphere about it.
42:30It feels like you're in a woodland and you've got this lovely little fire.
42:34I mean, the fire...
42:35That was fun.
42:35It is beautiful.
42:37It's just amazing how everything is part of the same field.
42:40Even though you've sort of thrown oxides on here and you've got mono printing, it just
42:43works.
42:44The colour brings it all together.
42:46This could be a brooch in itself.
42:48I mean, it's just...
42:49Maybe on your jacket, not on mine.
42:50It's just incredible.
42:51Yeah, I could wear that.
42:51Maybe more of a medallion.
42:53And Finn, how many scenes have you done then?
42:55There's two scenes.
42:56Right.
42:57The idea is the Canadians, they would be looking back into the scene at us in Cornwall and then
43:01vice versa.
43:02Oh, I see.
43:03And then they go in there looking out at us and then we look back in at them.
43:06Act two.
43:06Just really fabulous.
43:08I love the way that you've managed to sort of incorporate the characters within the whole
43:12scene.
43:13There's not much to them, but what there is, is detail.
43:15But what's impressing me most about it is a real sense of your style.
43:20It's almost like a culmination of all the weeks before coming into this.
43:25I could look at it time and time again.
43:27It's really, really wonderful.
43:29Well done.
43:29Thank you so much, Finn.
43:30Cheers.
43:32It's absolutely brilliant.
43:43Are you pleased with it?
43:44I'm really, really happy.
43:45Besides the warping and massive crack down the middle.
43:49It's a genre in theatre.
43:50It is actually.
43:51That's right.
43:52I mean, there's a reason why ceramic pings.
43:54It's the tension.
43:55Yeah.
43:55And you've got these two columns and it's just going.
43:58Yeah.
43:59Yeah.
43:59Well, look, your sense of style and your sense of playfulness.
44:03It's just absolutely a complete and utter celebration.
44:07Yeah.
44:08And it tells that story of who you are.
44:11And I just, I love it.
44:12Yeah.
44:12It's like your creative style just oozes out of you and it kind of penetrates every aspect of what you
44:18make.
44:19I mean, this is beautiful.
44:21When you look at it, you can see layers of different colours and surface and the texture on the stage.
44:26Beautiful.
44:27There's so many different techniques that you've employed on each and every aspect that makes them feel individually loved somehow.
44:33You can tell that you've put real heart into it.
44:36Wow.
44:37Yeah.
44:37God, that London scene.
44:38That's fantastic.
44:39It looks like a backdrop that would be painted in a theatre.
44:43Yeah, that comes out as well.
44:44So it goes really stripped back and then it's just the four of us down on the farm.
44:49We don't have a lot of photographs of us all together as kids and that's one that we do have.
44:53And here you are and you're making it in three dimensions.
44:56And as you're making it, you're just thinking about all those people that you love in your life.
45:01I love it.
45:01And look, this goes for all of you folks.
45:04You've covered everything and you've really thought of every single bit of detail.
45:08This particular challenge for the final is just so fitting because it enables you to give us your stories, but
45:15to give us all that incredible detail.
45:17And this is just brilliant.
45:19Really, really cool.
45:20It really is.
45:20Well done.
45:21Thank you so much.
45:24Awesome work, Carol.
45:25Well done.
45:27Well done.
45:28Really lovely.
45:29I'll take those lovely words away with me and just remember that when I have wobbles when I make it.
45:35It would be lovely to win, but I don't know what way it's going to go.
45:38It's up to the judges.
45:39And thank God I'm not one of them because I don't know what I'd do.
45:42I'm hoping I've done enough, but I've just lifted that really heavy thing up there.
45:46I'm not sure how good my arms are going to be for carrying a trophy today, but yes, it would
45:50be amazing if it could be me.
45:52I'd be absolutely elated if I won.
45:53I can't say good things about myself.
45:55I really, really struggle, but I can look at that piece and think, wow, I have definitely grown.
46:00I'll take so much away from this.
46:02It would be nice to take the trophy too.
46:03They're all just extraordinary, aren't they?
46:05They really are.
46:06They really are.
46:11My gosh, what a final.
46:12What a great challenge, actually.
46:14Yeah, so much of themselves in what they've made.
46:17And with such incredible detail.
46:19Exactly.
46:20So, Anne Harrods, let's talk about her extraordinary stage.
46:24There were so many different decorative techniques on display.
46:27She didn't rest on her laurels in any way.
46:30She really pushed herself.
46:31She doesn't even know where her laurels are.
46:33No, no.
46:33To rest on them.
46:34No, no.
46:35She's always pushing herself.
46:37Yeah.
46:37Aside from that crack, the quality of the making was outstanding.
46:41And that backdrop on the stage looked like a backdrop you'd find in a theatre.
46:44You also mentioned that Elham's inserts looked as if they were printed on canvas.
46:49Yeah.
46:49How do you think she did this week?
46:51Again, incredibly well.
46:52Incredibly detailed work.
46:54She did have a fairly substantial structural crack in the stage.
46:58But you could have taken any individual object out and it would have been intricately decorated.
47:03The Yorkshire puddings.
47:03The Yorkshire puddings.
47:04Those vases.
47:05Everything was just finished off meticulously.
47:08It was a culmination of what she's good at in the final, which was brilliant to see.
47:13Let's talk about Finn.
47:14Now, it is worth pointing out that Finn did come first in the second challenge.
47:18Yeah, he did.
47:19And attention to detail with form is what his main make was all about.
47:22Exactly.
47:23It felt like a really well thought out stage and all the components felt like they'd been treated with an
47:28equal amount of love.
47:29It really all came together for Finn.
47:31Aesthetically, almost structurally and decoratively.
47:34It was just brilliant.
47:36Well, it's always a serious decision, but it's extra serious this week.
47:39Do you have a winner?
47:40I think I do, yeah.
47:41Yeah, I think so.
47:42And I think it's the same as him.
47:44Yeah.
47:44Okay, well, I cannot wait to hear who it is.
47:53As our finalists await the judges' decision, their family, friends and past potters are here to cheer them on.
48:00It's so nice to be back.
48:02It's just been amazing being back here, isn't it?
48:04Yeah.
48:04Seeing everybody.
48:05Do I have a favourite?
48:07I mean, they're all really, really beautiful.
48:09I mean, Finn's is extraordinary.
48:10The illustrative quality you can bring to Clay is magical.
48:13Oh, it's difficult, isn't it?
48:15I think my money is on Anne Harrod.
48:17I knew exactly that Finn and Anne Harrod would be in the final because they're supremely talented.
48:22I didn't know about the third one, but I'm delighted it's Elham because she's just really pulled it out of
48:27the bag every time.
48:28She's just amazing.
48:30I think it's going to be a really difficult thing for the judges to pick from those three examples there.
48:35I wish they could all win, honestly.
48:37They're all so good.
48:47Hello, everyone.
48:49It's so wonderful to see you all and so many of you all this year.
48:52It's brilliant to have you here.
48:54Now, the moment you've all been waiting for.
48:56Please give a very warm welcome to our three extraordinary finalists.
49:02Please welcome Anne Harrod, Elham and Finn.
49:06Oh, lovely and welcome.
49:18Oh, I cannot tell you how wonderful it's been to have you here.
49:22And thank you to the three of you for your incredible work and for making this final really quite spectacular.
49:28But the results are in.
49:30This year's winner of The Great Pottery Throwdown is...
49:46Finn.
49:48Oh!
49:52Oh!
49:55Oh!
49:56Oh my darling!
49:58Oh!
50:00I'm so proud!
50:02Oh my darling!
50:03Finn!
50:05This belongs to you.
50:06Well done.
50:07Really well done.
50:09Well done, though.
50:10Well done.
50:11Well done.
50:11Absolutely wonderful achievement.
50:13Honestly, I'm absolutely dumbstruck.
50:16Like, I'm...
50:18Yeah.
50:19I'm shocked!
50:22What?
50:22That's so good.
50:23I'd love to go back in my house.
50:26That lot over there encouraged me to even give this a go.
50:29If they hadn't, I wouldn't be here now.
50:31So I'm incredibly proud.
50:32I've always known he's got an incredible talent and I think he's incredible.
50:38Amazing!
50:40Oh, you did so well.
50:42Super proud of myself.
50:43And it's so nice to have my brother and my sister here.
50:46They get to see, like, that final piece and see how much they mean to me.
50:52We've all shown our strengths in different ways and Finn has been a very strong maker throughout.
50:57So hats off to him because, like, it is deserved.
50:59It is deserved.
51:00Do you know what?
51:01You're all women winners.
51:03No, everyone.
51:03And we've all been on a journey together.
51:05It's been lovely.
51:06What a way to finish.
51:08Genuinely well-deserved.
51:09Like, Finn's really, like, give it his all every week.
51:12And, yeah.
51:13Well done.
51:15Congratulations.
51:17Absolutely extraordinary.
51:18Finn has been consistent all the way through.
51:21There are skills that are taught and that you can learn and you can hone over time.
51:25But he just has it in him.
51:27And in the final, he just produced the most extraordinary, extraordinary piece that spoke bucket loads about his skills, his
51:34creativity and his personal stories.
51:37What makes Finn really stand out and be a worthy winner is his attention to detail, his observational skills at
51:45being able to observe a particular surface and recreate it in clay.
51:49He's just a credit to creativity.
51:51He really is.
51:52And, well, need I say any more?
51:55Finn's the winner.
51:56Do you know what?
51:57I think I've learned that actually I'm a little bit more in control of myself than I thought I was.
52:03And if I put the effort in, I can achieve stuff.
52:06So it's going to take me some time to process this, that's for sure.
52:09But this means a lot.
52:11I am just really overwhelmed right now.
52:13There's no...
52:15There's nothing else I can say, to be honest with you.
52:25There's a reason for the sunshine in the sky.
52:30And there's a reason why I'm feeling so high.
52:34Must be the season when that love light shines all around us.
52:42So let that feeling grab you deep inside.
52:47And send you reeling where your love can't hide.
52:52And then go stealing through the moonlit nights with your lover.
53:00Just let your love flow like a mountain stream.
53:05And let your love grow with the smallest of dreams.
53:09And let your love show.
53:11And you'll know what I mean.
53:14It's the season.
53:18Let your love fly like a bird on the wing.
53:23And let your love bind you to all living things.
53:27And let your love shine.
53:29And you'll know what I mean.
53:32That's the reason.
53:36There's a reason.
53:38There's a reason.
53:39For the warm sweet nights.
53:41And there's a reason.
53:42For the candle lights must meet the season.
53:47When those love rides shine all around us.
53:53So let that wonder.
53:55Take you into space.
53:58And lay you under.
54:01It's loving embrace.
54:03Just feel the thunder.
54:05As it warms your face.
54:07You can't hold back.
54:09Guys are you excited?
54:10Mummy's on TV.
54:11Yeah.
54:12Come watch something else.
54:13There's a reason.
54:14Like a mountain stream.
54:16And let your love grow.
54:18With the smallest of dreams.
54:20And let your love show.
54:22And you'll know what I mean.
54:25It's the season.
54:29Let your love fly high.
54:32Like a bird on the wing.
54:34And let your love bind you.
54:36To all living things.
54:38And let your love shine.
54:41If you'd like to apply for the next series of The Great Pottery Throwdown,
54:45visit channel4.com forward slash take part.
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