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Alice Roberts

Alice Roberts



United Kingdom

Age: 53

Born: 19 May, 1973

Known for

In Digging for Britain as Prof Alice Roberts - Presenteras Prof Alice Roberts - Presenter

in Digging for Britain
In Time Team as Osteoarchaeologist / Palaeopathologistas Osteoarchaeologist / Palaeopathologist

in Time Team
In Royal Institution Christmas Lectures as Alice Robertsas Alice Roberts

in Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
In Britain's Most Historic Towns as Presenteras Presenter

in Britain's Most Historic Towns

TV Series Starring Alice Roberts

Roman Empire by Train with Alice RobertsRoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts
Channel 4, 2026 Running | Documentary | ► Trailer
1.0


Alice embarks on her most ambitious journey to date, in search of the Roman Empire, travelling 1300 miles through Italy, France and Spain to discover the origins and secrets of Rome's success.


Lost Grail with Alice RobertsLost Grail with Alice Roberts
Sky 1, 2026 Running | History, Documentary
2.0


Join Professor Alice Roberts on an adventure across Britain as she decodes the truth behind its Holy Grail legends, linking Arthurian lore, sacred relics and the Knights Templar.


Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through TimeAlice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time
Channel 5, 2026 Running | Medical, Documentary | ► Trailer
5.0


Unprecedented access to the renowned hospital's modern wards and private archive.


Witches Of Essex (2025)Witches Of Essex (2025)
Sky History, 2025 Running | History, Documentary



Rylan Clark teams up with anthropologist Professor Alice Roberts to investigate one of the darkest and most harrowing chapters in Essex's history - the murder of hundreds of women accused of witchcraft. Each episode centers on a specific witch trial, with Rylan and Alice opening a cold case into the stories behind some of the women accused of witchcraft during the 16th and 17th centuries, many of whom were found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.


Ancient Greece by Train with Alice RobertsAncient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts
Channel 4, 2025 Cancelled/Ended | Travel, History, Documentary | ► Trailer
3.3


In this third chapter of her railway journeys going back in time, Professor Alice Roberts takes to the railways of Greece and Turkey as she learns about the Ancient Greek civilisation that has had such a powerful effect on our lives today.


Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice RobertsOttoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts
Channel 4, 2024 On Hiatus | Travel, History, Documentary
4.0


Alice travels by train through Turkey and beyond, tracing the history of the Ottoman Empire across centuries, as she explores fascinating tales and amazing landscapes.


Royal AutopsyRoyal Autopsy
Sky History, 2023 On Hiatus | Medical, History, Documentary



Royal Autopsy investigates the cause of death of two of Britain's most famous monarchs: Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles II, in an entirely new and realistic way. Professor Alice Roberts will bring together a blend of historical and medical expertise and by using contemporaneous accounts and documents piece together how and why these monarchs died.


Ancient Egypt by TrainAncient Egypt by Train
BBC America, 2023 Cancelled/Ended | History, Documentary, Mini-Series
4.0


Professor Alice Roberts uses Egypt's rail network, one of the world's oldest rail networks, to explore one of the world's most ancient civilisations.


Fortress Britain with Alice RobertsFortress Britain with Alice Roberts


Alice and fellow historians explore Britain's obsession with invasion through the centuries examining the physical reminders that remain


Curse of the Ancients with Alice RobertsCurse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts
Sky History, 2022 On Hiatus | History, Documentary



Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing the evidence for cataclysmic events in the past and their disastrous consequences. From wars to earthquakes and floods to famines - these are the events that have helped shape our modern world. In each episode, Alice takes viewers on a journey across Europe and North Africa to discover epic sites and landmarks - fabulous cities abandoned, battlefields long forgotten and sophisticated civilisations toppled and lost to the mists of time. To our ancient ancestors, suffering these catastrophic events, it must have seemed they were cursed but science is now exploding those myths and re-writing history.


The Secrets to CivilizationThe Secrets to Civilization
CuriosityStream, 2021 Cancelled/Ended | History, Documentary
5.0


Modern science reveals the environmental forces that have shaped human history. This series explores how cutting-edge science is changing the way we think about the ancient past - restoring the environment to its place as a key driver of human history. Throughout the series, top historians and archaeologists share with us how new collaborations with the scientific community, and a host of new data on the state of our planet, is providing them with fresh insights on how climate, disease and vulcanism have affected the course of human history.


Britain's Biggest DigBritain's Biggest Dig
BBC Two, 2020 Cancelled/Ended | Documentary
3.0


In preparation for HS2, two massive digs uncover fascinating burials, revealing life in imperial London and industrial Birmingham.


Britain's Most Historic TownsBritain's Most Historic Towns
Channel 4, 2018 On Hiatus | History, Documentary
5.0


In this unique take on British history, Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain's rich and varied past through the stories of individual towns and cities. In each programme Alice studies one key period in history by delving into the secrets of a historic town that encapsulates the era, providing an accurate impression of what life was really like at key moments in our turbulent past. At the climax of each programme, cutting-edge CGI reveals the entire historic town in all its former glory.


Food Detectives (2016)Food Detectives (2016)
BBC Two, 2016 Cancelled/Ended | Cooking/Food, Documentary



The Food Detectives use their expertise to help you make the best food choices. They want to improve your cooking, your health and your bank balance.


The Celts: Blood Iron and Sacrifice with Alice Roberts and Neil OliverThe Celts: Blood Iron and Sacrifice with Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver
BBC Two, 2015 Cancelled/Ended | History, Documentary
5.0


Anthropologist Prof. Alice Roberts and archaeologist Neil Oliver go in search of the Celts - one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In Britain and Ireland, we are never far from our Celtic past but in this series Neil and Alice travel much further afield, discovering the origins and beliefs of these Iron Age people in artifacts and human remains right across Europe, from Turkey to Portugal.


Ice Age GiantsIce Age Giants
BBC Two, 2013 Cancelled/Ended | History, Documentary, Nature



Ice Age Giants is a documentary series which sees Alice Roberts going back 40,000 years looking for the great beasts of the Ice Age. This was the last time that giants like mammoths, woolly rhinos, and sabre-tooth cats ruled the Earth and Alice attempts to reconstruct their lives in incredible detail.


Prehistoric AutopsyPrehistoric Autopsy
BBC Two, 2012 Cancelled/Ended | Medical, History, Lifestyle, Documentary



This is a documentary series which sees Professor Alice Roberts, Dr George McGavin and a team of anatomists, anthropologists, archaeologists and SFX experts bring the viewers at home face to face with one of our closest human ancestors, a Neanderthal. Using the latest scientific research, the team will reconstruct one particular Neanderthal.


Origins of UsOrigins of Us
BBC Two, 2011 Cancelled/Ended | Documentary, Nature



Origins of Us tells the story of our species, homo sapiens. In every one of our bodies is the evidence of how we evolved away from our ape cousins to become the adaptable, successful species we are today.Anatomist and physical anthropologist Dr Alice Roberts reveals the key adaptations in our body that has contributed to our extra-ordinary success. Far from being inevitable, the evolution of our species is a product of pure chance. And with each anatomical advantage comes a cost, which many of us are still paying today. Bad backs, painful childbirth, impacted wisdom teeth are all a by-product of our evolutionary success.This is a journey through your own body, 6 million years and 300 000 generations of our family, from a tree dwelling ape in the forests of Africa, to you and the six billion other humans on Earth today.


Digging for BritainDigging for Britain
BBC Four, 2010 Running | Documentary | ► Trailer
5.0


Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.


The Incredible Human JourneyThe Incredible Human Journey
BBC Two, 2009 Cancelled/Ended | Documentary, Mini-Series
5.0


Dr Alice Roberts travels the globe to discover the incredible story of how humans left Africa to colonise the world - overcoming hostile terrain, extreme weather and other species of human. She pieces together precious fragments of bone, stone and new DNA evidence and discovers how this journey changed these African ancestors into the people of today.


CoastCoast
BBC Two, 2005 Cancelled/Ended | Documentary
4.0


The nation's love affair with the coast will be reawakened for this entertaining and ambitious exploration of the entire UK coastline. Every part of the 9,000-mile coast is covered to explore how we've shaped it - and how it shapes us. Hosted by a team of history and geography experts who investigate everything from life on a nuclear submarine; rebuilding the Titanic using computer images; the story behind the first Butlins holiday camp; and the birth of the Severn Bore. Discover the curious, sometimes dysfunctional, relationship between the British and the seas.


Time TeamTime Team
Channel 4, 1994 Running | Family, History, Documentary
4.2


Archaeology for the masses. From what might be perceived as a "stuffy" subject, Time Team has popularized the subject with its enthusiasm to uncover the secrets of Britain's rich and long history.


Royal Institution Christmas LecturesRoyal Institution Christmas Lectures
BBC Four, 1991 Running | Documentary
4.7


The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures have been held in London annually since 1825. They serve as a forum for presenting complex scientific issues to a general audience in an informative and entertaining manner. In the mid 1820s Michael Faraday, a former Director of the Royal Institution, initiated the first Christmas Lecture series at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. He presented a total of 19 series, establishing an exciting new venture of teaching science to young people that was eventually copied by other institutions internationally.