Secrets of the Sun with Dara Ó Briain
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm, Friday, March 27 on 5 (5)
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First of a two-part documentary in which Dara explores humans' relationship with the sun. He starts out in Texas, where he goes to watch one of the rarest of solar events, a total eclipse. He also meets Professor Stella Offner, whose research focuses on understanding how stars like the sun form
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Dara O Briain
(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.
Steve Crabtree
(Executive producer)
Ross Kirby
(Director)
