Keith Brymer Jones (15:30)

To celebrated judge on Channel 4’s The Great Pottery Throwdown, which has an audience of over two million, from ballet dancer and front man in an almost famous band - how did all that happen?

In his first memoir, Boy in a China Shop, Keith reveals how he went from a North London boyhood to a global success. Growing up, Keith had a great talent for dance, in particular ballet. At school he wrestled with dyslexia until a sympathetic art teacher intervened and changed everything when he first touched clay. For years he worked long hours as a ‘clay boy’ at Harefield Pottery to learn his craft whilst also singing in a punk band, before setting up his own business.

But his big break came when Heals took a range of his hand-thrown pottery and he’s never looked back. His 70,000 followers across Instagram and Twitter are evidence of the appeal of his emotional response to pottery and art on screen.

In conversation with Vivian French

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