Wonders of Volcanoes with Dara O Briain
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Tuesday, June 23 on 5SELECT (46)
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Season 1, Episode 2
Part two of two. The comedian concludes his journey across Italy to uncover what happens when volcanoes turn from natural wonders into human disasters. Dara travels to mainland Italy and, with the help of volcanologist Dr Dougal Jerram, he learns about a deadly phenomenon known as a pyroclastic flow. In Naples, he explores the story of Mount Vesuvius and its 79AD eruption
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(Presenter)
Born:
February 04, 1972
in
Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland
Best Known For:
Mock the Week.
Early-life:
Born in Bray, Co Wicklow, on February 4, 1972, and attended a tough school on Dublin's southside. He studied maths and theoretical physics at University College, Dublin. While a student there, he was both the auditor of the Literary and Historical Society (the university's oldest debating society and the official College Debating Union) and the co-founder and co-editor of the University Observer college newspaper. In 1994, he won the Irish Times National Debating Championship and the Irish Times/Gael Linn National Irish language debating championship.
Career:
O Briain's first post-uni job was as a children's TV presenter for RTE. He also began performing stand-up gigs on the Irish comedy circuit. He came to prominence as a team captain on the Irish topical panel show Don't Feed The Gondolas (1998-2000). He then toured heavily, performing across Europe, Asia, Australia and North America. In 2002, O Briain began making appearances on British TV shows. He has hosted the comedy panel game Mock the Week since 2005, and continues to perform stand-up. He took over from Adrian Chiles as the host of The Apprentice: You're Fired! in 2010, but quit in 2014. He has also branched out into maths and science with the series School of Hard Sums and Stargazing Live.
Quote:
On School of Hard Sums: 'I only did it to get the problems, because I quite like doing equations. There's a bit of me that just pined for a bit of maths.'
Trivia:
O Briain was one of the six celebrities who took on the Zambezi River for Comic Relief's 2013 Through Hell and High Water challenge.
Rob Liddell
(Executive producer)
Alastair Duncan
(Director)
