DARA AND ED’S GREAT BIG ADVENTURE ***NEW SERIES***

Yotam Ottolenghi Shoot, Sardinia and Corsica 2013 Image Name: Yotam Ottolenghi Shoot, Sardinia and Corsica 2013 Description: Dara O Briain and Ed Byrne on a boat on the Panama Canal
Yotam Ottolenghi Shoot, Sardinia and Corsica 2013 Image Name: Yotam Ottolenghi Shoot, Sardinia and Corsica 2013 Description: Dara O Briain and Ed Byrne at Lake Nacome in Honduras
Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure Image Name: Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure Description: Dara O Briain and Ed Byrne outside Publisher El Diario in San Salvador, El Salvador
Yotam Ottolenghi Shoot, Sardinia and Corsica 2013 Image Name: Yotam Ottolenghi Shoot, Sardinia and Corsica 2013 Description: Dara O Briain and Ed Byrne at Yaviza in Panama

Broadcast Details: Thursday 19th February, 10.15pm

Dara and Ed’s Big Adventure is a brand new three part series which follows comedians Ed Byrne and Dara O'Briain as they embark on an epic 4,000 mile Pan-American adventure. Episode one sees Dara and Ed set off in Arizona and speed towards Mexico where they see the famous Lucha Libre wrestlers, a state of the art coffee farm, the ancient Zapotec civilisation of Monte Alban, and sample the local Juchitán delicacy of iguana.

Dara and Ed’s Big Adventure is a brand new three part series which follows comedians Ed Byrne and Dara O’Briain as they embark on an epic 4,000 mile Pan-American adventure, retracing an intrepid journey originally undertaken in the 1940’s.

Dara and Ed follow in the wheel tracks of three adventurers from Detroit.  Sullivan Richardson, Arnold Whitaker and Kenneth Van Hee were dubbed the ‘three damn fools’ by the American press when they set out to travel from North to South America in their Plymouth saloon car, before a road linked the continents.

Episode one sees Dara and Ed start in Arizona and  speed towards Mexico where they see the famous Lucha Libre wrestlers, a state of the art coffee farm, the ancient Zapotec civilisation of Monte Alban, and sample the local Juchitán delicacy of iguana. On a darker note they also witness the steady stream of migrants risking their lives to reach North America riding the freight train known as ‘La Bestia’.

Dara and Ed’s Great Big Adventure starts Thursday, 19th February at 10.15pm on RTÉ One.