World's Most Dangerous Roads - Madagascar - 07:10 am Monday, April 20 on U&Dave

About this Broadcast

Madagascar

Celebrities undertake some of the most perilous journeys in the world. Driving up Madagascar's eastern coast at the tail end of the rainy season is enough to test the best of friendships, but comedy actor Angus Deayton and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup are game enough to take on the challenge, and good enough friends to poke fun at each other along the way. The route has numerous river crossings and the duo face a variety of broken bridges and flimsy ferries as the only way across, while the roads themselves are mired with thick mud. Progress becomes increasingly painful and they are finally forced to spend a night in the car

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Did You Know..

Angus Deayton (Presenter)

Born: January 06, 1956 in Surrey

Best Known For: Have I Got News For You?

Early-life: Born Gordon Angus Deayton on January 6, 1956, the youngest son of an insurance firm manager and a cookery teacher. He was raised in Caterham, Surrey. He excelled at football at school and had a trial with Crystal Palace at age 12. He studied French and German at New College, Oxford, but a showbusiness career didn't seem to be on the cards until writer Richard Curtis asked him to stand in at the last minute after someone dropped out of an Edinburgh Festival revue.

Career: Success in Australia with spoof band the Hebegeebees prompted him to concentrate on comedy. He sold a sketch to The Dick Emery Show in 1978, and in 1983 made his TV debut in The Black Adder. Other small roles followed before his show Radio Active transferred to the small screen as KYTV in 1988. Two years later he became a household name thanks to sitcom One Foot in the Grave and his role as the host of current affairs comedy quiz Have I Got News For You. He left the quiz in 2002 following accusations about his private life. Deayton also appeared in the film Elizabeth, TV shows Mr Bean, Monkey Trousers, Nighty Night and Waterloo Road, and presented Hell's Kitchen, Bognor or Bust and Stick to What You Know.

Quote: 'When one door closes, another one falls on top of you.'

Trivia: In BBC Two's World's Most Dangerous Roads, Deayton drove with Mariella Frostrup along the east coast of Madagascar.

Mariella Frostrup (Presenter)

Born: November 12, 1962 in Oslo, Norway

Best Known For: Being a blonde, but not a bimbo.

Early-life: Born in Oslo on November 12, 1962, Mariella's family moved to Dublin when she was six after her Norwegian father became foreign editor for the Irish Times. Her parents later split up, and she lived with her Scottish artist mother, eventually leaving home at 16, the year after her father died. She arrived in London and lived in a Shepherds Bush squat, where she tried to get her TV career off the ground.

Career: Frostrup had numerous jobs, including PR officer for Bananarama and Spandau Ballet, before landing the post of presenter on Video View in 1987. Since then, Frostrup has hosted several movie review programmes, including At The Movies and The Little Picture Show. She has fronted her own series, Frostrup on Friday, appeared on Going For A Song and presented an episode of Panorama. She has also been a jury panel member for The Olivier Theatre Awards and the Booker Prize.

Quote: 'I was told that, when you hit 40, men stop looking at you. It's true - until you slip on a mini-skirt.'

Trivia: Frostrup writes an agony aunt-type column called Dear Mariella for The Observer Magazine.

Ewen Thomson (Series producer)

Sue Davidson (Producer)