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Dara O Briain: School Of Hard Sums

Dara O Briain: School Of Hard Sums

  • TV comedy
  • Dave
  • 2012 - 2014
  • 24 episodes (3 series)

Dara O Briain presents a comic entertainment show about maths, based on an Emmy Award-nominated Japanese format. Stars Dara O Briain and Marcus du Sautoy.

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Series 1, Episode 4

Brains and brawn go head to head once again as Dara O'Briain presents the light-hearted science show. Taking up Dara's problem-solving challenge here is Andi Osho.

Preview clips

Further details

Dara O'Briain returns for more mathematical mayhem, and this week he is joined by comedian Andi Osho. With no mathematical training at all, Dara and Andi will attempt to solve problems posed by Oxford University professor, Marcus du Sautoy.

The theme for this week's show is that you can't argue with logic and in the first challenge, Marcus challenges Dara and Andi to use logic to re-label some mixed up bottles of wine, without being able to see what they are. We needed a stiff drink after trying to work it out, but Andi manages to figure out what should go where by applying the principles of logic.

More fun experiments include using weights to find a fake coin and working out how many trips in the lift a virgin would have to take to not get killed by a vampire. It sounds like a right pain in the neck, but it's completely logical - honest.

Broadcast details

Date
Monday 7th May 2012
Time
8pm
Channel
Dave
Length
40 minutes

Repeats

Show past repeats

Date Time Channel
Tuesday 8th May 2012 11:00pm Dave
Wednesday 9th May 2012 10:20pm Dave
Sunday 13th May 2012 6:00pm Dave
Sunday 29th July 2012 3:20pm Dave
Sunday 29th July 2012 7:20pm Dave
Tuesday 12th November 2013 11:40pm Dave
Saturday 13th September 2014 1:15am Dave
Wednesday 12th November 2014 2:45am Dave
Saturday 7th March 2015 3:05am Dave

Cast & crew

Cast
Dara O Briain Host / Presenter
Marcus du Sautoy (as Prof Marcus Du Sautoy) Self
Guest cast
Andi Osho Guest
Graham Benham Self
Innes Lee Self
Writing team
Sarah Morgan Writer
Ged Parsons Writer
George Sawyer Writer
Colin Swash Writer
Production team
Mike Bradley Director
Samuel Wilkinson Director
Richard Valentine Director
Sean Miller Series Producer
Mike Bradley Producer
Samuel Wilkinson Producer
Helen Younger Producer
Richard Watsham Executive Producer
Katherine Parsons Executive Producer
Phil Morrow Executive Producer
Simon Hornbrook Editor
Malcolm Finch Editor
Jonathan Paul Green Production Designer
Marc Sylvan Composer

Video

Episode 4 Preview

Clips from the third episode of the show.

Featuring: Prof Marcus Du Sautoy, Dara O Briain & Andi Osho.

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