Alice Roberts

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A presenter of science and history television documentaries, Roberts was one of the regular co-presenters of the BBC geographical and environmental series Coast.

Alice Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode, working on Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire. She served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology. In August 2006, a Time Team special episode Big Royal Dig investigated archaeology of Britain’s royal palaces; Alice Roberts was one of the main presenters.

Alice Roberts wrote and presented a BBC Two series on anatomy and health entitled Dr Alice Roberts: Don’t Die Young, which was broadcast from January 2007. She presented a five-part series on human evolution and early human migrations for that channel entitled The Incredible Human Journey, beginning on 10 May 2009. In September 2009, she co-presented with Mark Hamilton A Necessary Evil?, a one-hour documentary about the Burke and Hare murders.

In August 2010, she presented a one-hour documentary on BBC Four, Wild Swimming, inspired by Roger Deakin’s book Waterlog. Alice Roberts presented a four-part BBC Two series on archaeology in August–September 2010, Digging for Britain. Alice Roberts explained, “We’re taking a fresh approach by showing British archaeology as it’s happening out in the field, from the excitement of artefacts as they come out of the ground, through to analysing them in the lab and working out what they tell us about human history.” The series returned in 2011 and again (on BBC Four) in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

In March 2011, she presented a BBC documentary in the Horizon series entitled Are We Still Evolving? Later in 2011, she presented another BBC documentary called How to Build a Dinosaur, which aired on BBC4 on 21 September 2011.

She presented the series Origins of Us, which aired on BBC Two in October 2011, examining how the human body has adapted through seven million years of evolution. The last part of this series featured Alice Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa.

In April 2012, Alice Roberts presented Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice on BBC Two. From 22 to 24 October 2012, she appeared, with co-presenter Dr George McGavin, in the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy, which discussed the remains of early hominins such as Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Australopithecus afarensis. In May and June 2013 she presented the BBC Two series Ice Age Giants. In September 2014, she was a presenter on the Horizon programme Is Your Brain Male or Female?

In October 2014, she presented Spider House. In 2015, she co-presented a 3-part BBC TV documentary with Neil Oliver entitled The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice and wrote a book to tie in with the series: The Celts: Search for a Civilisation. In April–May 2016, she co-presented the BBC Two programme Food Detectives which looked at food nutrition and its effects on the body. In August 2016, she presented the BBC Four documentary Britain’s Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time, which explored the Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire. In May 2017, she was a presenter of the BBC Two documentary The Day The Dinosaurs Died. In April 2018, she presented the six-part Channel 4 series Britain’s Most Historic Towns, which examines the history of British towns, which was followed by a second series in May 2019 and a third series in November 2020.

In September 2018, she presented the BBC Two documentary King Arthur’s Britain: The Truth Unearthed, which examines new archaeological discoveries that cast light on the political and trading situation in Britain during the Early Middle Ages. In December 2018, she presented a series of three Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, titled Who am I? and broadcast on BBC Four, with guest lecturer Aoife McLysaght.

On 4 August 2020, Alice Roberts was the guest on BBC Radio 4’s The Life Scientific. Aired as a three-part series in September 2020, Alice Roberts co-presented the BBC’s The Big Dig focusing on the finds at St. James’s Park in London and Park Street in Birmingham.

On 12 February 2021, Alice Roberts presented a one-hour BBC Two documentary, Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed, about Mike Parker Pearson’s five-year-long quest that filled in a 400-year historical gap in the provenance of the bluestones of Stonehenge and Waun Mawn.

On 14 March 2022, Curse Of The Ancients with Alice Roberts, a five-part documentary series presented by Alice Roberts premiered on Sky History. In October Alice Roberts presented Royal Autopsy, a two-part documentary series shown on Sky History; a second series was commissioned in November 2023. The series examined the deaths of Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles II, and then Queen Anne, Queen Mary I, King Henry IV and King George IV. Alice Roberts presented the second series of Royal Autopsy that aired during April 2024.

In March and April 2023, Alice Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts. In June, Alice Roberts presented the four-part Channel 4 series Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts, Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts during autumn 2024. and Ancient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts during spring 2025.

In May 2024, Alice Roberts presented the documentary The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations, which aired on Channel 5