Handmade: Britain's Best WoodworkerEpisodes Guide

In this opening episode, the woodworkers have two days to complete a bed of dreams that may become the stuff of nightmares. And in the surprise skills challenge, they must celebrate the fine skill of hand carving, with an invaluable prize for the winner.

In this episode, the eight remaining enthusiasts face a very small and intricate big build challenge as they wrestle with woodworking on a miniature and precise scale to make dolls' houses. However, these dolls' houses are not child's play, as the woodworkers must design and build houses that could become collectors' pieces - the devil's in the detail. With just two days to build what would normally take weeks, the pressure is on.

The seven remaining woodworkers face the toughest big build of the competition so far and one of the hardest objects to make - a chair. They must bend and build their way to create chairs that could become design classics in just two days and craft what would take a professional weeks to make. And in the skills challenge, the woodworkers' whittling skills are tested. Award-winning architect Alex de Rijke and queen of furniture-making Helen Welch monitor proceedings as judges, with a double elimination in the offing.

It's the quarter-final and the five remaining woodworkers turn up the heat and go wild as they take on animal sculptures. They must chainsaw and carve their way through this colossal big build and unleash their inner beasts as they attempt to uncover an animal within the wood, in just two days. Judges Alex de Rijke and Helen Welch also set them a physically demanding skills challenge that takes them back to Viking times, but only one woodworker can win the immunity that will guarantee them a place in the semi-final.

The semi-final finds the final four woodworkers getting tipsy and glamorous with drinks cabinets inspired by a specific decade. They have to craft sliding doors and complicated mechanisms in a bid to make it through to the final. However, judges Alex de Rijke and Helen Welch aren't letting up, as they set a steamy surprise challenge that may bend the woodworkers out of shape.

Mel Giedroyc welcomes the three finalists back to the workshop nestled in ancient woodland on Wales' Glanusk Estate to make their biggest build yet - towering garden buildings. With just two days to build huge creations that would take professionals weeks to make, the woodworkers must give this final build everything they've got. Only one competitor can win, and it's up to judges Alex de Rijke and Helen Welch to decide who is Britain's best woodworker.

Mel Giedroyc returns with the carpentry contest, which sees 10 woodworking enthusiasts fight hammer and nail as they create various projects that combine epic scale with fine craftsmanship and cutting-edge design. To remain in the competition they have to impress the judges, entrepreneur and woodworking expert Sophie Sellu and design academic Tom Dyckhoff, while a series of surprise challenges keep them on their toes - and give them the chance to win a lifeline.

The carpentry enthusiasts are challenged to make a beautiful, freestanding, handcrafted clock inspired by an important time in their life. But as time ticks by, little goes to plan, and the woodworkers are tested to their limits. However, an opportunity to win immunity comes in the form of the skills challenge, where they must reproduce a bunch of realistic roses from delicate pieces of wood planed from a block of ash. Presented by Mel Giedroyc.

Mel Giedroyc welcomes the eight remaining woodworkers back, and awaiting them this time is literally child's play, as they craft a high-quality toy inspired by their own childhood. The woodworkers are tasked with carving a modern take on the traditional Welsh love spoon, but who will sweep judges Sophie Sellu and Tom Dyckhoff off their feet with their love token, and who will be dumped from the competition?

The carpentry enthusiasts are challenged to make bespoke day beds inspired by a design movement, ensuring it is strong, practical and comfortable. As ever, an opportunity to win immunity comes in the form of the skills challenge, which this week sees them burning an image onto wood.

The woodworkers create a sea-inspired sculpture from a tree trunk and turn a perfectly proportioned spinning top on a traditional pole lathe.

The woodworkers are challenged to make a stylish rocking chair with a modern twist - and with a place in the semi-final at stake, the pressure is on. As ever, there is a chance to secure immunity in the skills challenge, for which judges Tom Dyckhoff and Sophie Sellu have them building a birdbox. Presented by Mel Giedroyc.

Mel Giedroyc presents the semi-final in which the remaining four woodworkers have to build an elaborate desk on a two-day time crunch. In the skills challenge the contestants create vases out of cut-offs in a fight for that all-important immunity, but just who will grab their place in next week's final?

In the final challenge the remaining woodworkers make a home bar, dramatic, sophisticated and at least one-metre tall. In the skills test the competitors make a sign to go along with it. One will be celebrating, while the others drown their sorrows as Britain's Best Woodworker is crowned.

The new stack of woodworkers make a bench for the garden of their dreams and a wooden greetings card. Who'll carve out their place in the next round, and who won't make the cut?

The remaining woodworkers throw all their energy into creating two freestanding lamps. Who will stay in the spotlight and who will be left in the dark?

The woodworkers create a beautiful coffee table and perfect, matching wooden dice. Whose winning streak will guarantee them a place in the next round?

The woodworkers turn fiction into fact by making a freestanding bookshelf. And whose wooden candelabra will light their way to the next round?

The woodworkers make a supersize creepy crawly and use all their canine cunning to build a house for a four-legged friend. Who will the judges think is top dog?

The five remaining contestants must make a four-poster bed beautiful enough to grace a honeymoon suite for the big build challenge, while in the skills challenge, they carve an intricate Indian printing block. Judges Sophie Sellu and Tom Dyckhoff must then decide who will be leaving the show this week.

Mel Giedroyc hosts the semi-final, in which the contestants must create a hanging chair supported by a robust frame that captures the essence of a favourite holiday destination. The skills challenge requires them to recreate an exact replica of a chair leg on a pole lathe, before judges Sophie Sellu and Tom Dyckhoff decide who will be going through to next week's final.

Mel Giedroyc hosts the grand final, where the last remaining contestants are challenged to create a kitchen island complete with functioning cupboards and doors. For their last technical skills challenge, they design a kitchen accessory to complement their construction, before judges Sophie Sellu and Tom Dyckhoff declare this year's winner.