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<UKTV?s Dave is thrilled to welcome Irish comedian and presenter Dara O Briain, as he takes a journey into the realms of pure logic in his brand new and exclusive series, ?Dara O Briain: School Of launching Monday 16th April at 8pm on Dave.

The unlikely comedian-come-brainbox who studied maths and theoretical physics at University College, Dublin is on a mission to use all his knowledge and intuition to solve some tasty real-world brainteasers and conundrums. But instead of guesswork, Dara?s enlisting maths, physics, chemistry and logic, to solve a variety of problems.

Want to know how best to save a drowning man? Dara works out the optimum angle to jump into the river and pull them to safety. Want to know where to position yourself on a dance-floor to potentially get the highest number of kisses? Dara finds a way. Want to find out the most slices you can get out of a pizza if you?re only allowed to cut it three times? Dara?s your pizza-peculiar man!

Check out the Dara O Briain: School Of Hard Sums trailer here:

In each episode, Dara teams up with Oxford University maths professor Marcus du Sautoy and a variety of comedy guests including; Alex Horne, David O?Doherty and Jason Byrne, to dissect each puzzle and find out guaranteed ways to solve some serious quizzing complications!

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