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- ↑ Alastair McKay (6 November 2015), "Catch up TV: The Great British Pottery Throw Down", Evening Standard
- ↑ Tim Dowling (11 November 2015), "The Great Pottery Throw Down review: if your pot doesn't make the judge cry, you aren't trying hard enough", The Guardian
- ↑ "When pottery gets political…". Stratford-upon-Avon Herald. March 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
- ↑ "Weekly top 30 programmes on TV sets (July 1998 - Sept 2018)". BARB . Retrieved 1 November 2016.
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