Wonders of Volcanoes with Dara Ó Briain

Streaming video - 2025

Embark on a journey from Etna to Vesuvius and witness one of Earth’s most fearsome natural wonders. Both dazzling and destructive, volcanoes have fascinated and frightened us for millennia. The mythical home of the gods, these mountains of fire can bury cities and trigger tsunamis, yet they also hold hidden treasures and create fertile soils. Dara Ó Briain marvels at Italy’s lava fountains, drinks wines grown on volcanic slopes, meets the people who call volcanoes home, and learns how volcanoes have defined the country’s fortunes and impacted its culture for centuries. He also asks whether something that holds the key to so much of our understanding of the world could also be the greatest threat to it.