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Dara Ó Briain goes with the flow as he visits Italy's active volcanoes

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Volcano with Dara Ó Briain

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Dara Ó Briain finds himself scarily close to an erupting volcano for his latest TV series, Volcano with Dara Ó Briain, when he travels to Italy, a hotbed of volcanic activity. Across two episodes, the comedian visits the country's most active and dangerous volcanoes - Mount Etna, Campi Flegrei, Stromboli and Vesuvius, famous for its AD 79 eruption that wiped out Pompeii.

He also enters a lava cave, learns how scientists use thermal imaging to scan for rising magma, and witnesses Stromboli's fiery lava fountains.

Here, Ó Briain, 53, tells TV&Satellite Week more about his seismic adventure...