Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts
Mar. 14, 2022Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts
Professor Alice Roberts reveals how scientists are unearthing the evidence for cataclysmic events in the past and their disastrous consequences. ...
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Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts
Oct. 26, 2024Ottoman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts
Professor Alice Roberts takes a train ride that covers 600 years of the Ottoman Empire. Her mission is to learn about this vast empire that ...
Britain’s Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time
Aug. 02, 2016Britain’s Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time
Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that’s been called the ...
The Secrets to Civilization
Sep. 19, 2021The Secrets to Civilization
Secrets to Civilisation is a groundbreaking History series which explores the recent explosion in data about our planet’s past, offering a ...
Britain’s Biggest Dig
Sep. 15, 2020Britain’s Biggest Dig
Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper into he fortunes of rich and poor in Georgian London through the excavations at St ...
Britain’s Most Historic Towns
Apr. 07, 2018Britain’s Most Historic Towns
In this unique take on British history, Professor Alice Roberts explores Britain’s rich and varied past through the stories of individual ...
A Timewatch Guide
Feb. 03, 2015A Timewatch Guide
Series looking at how the BBC has revealed and interpreted monumental moments in our history. Using the BBC archive, the programmes examine ...
Origins of Us
Oct. 17, 2011Origins of Us
Dr Alice Roberts reveals how your body tells the story of human evolution. The way you look, think and behave is a product of a 6 million year ...
The Incredible Human Journey
May. 10, 2009The Incredible Human Journey
There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to ...
Royal Autopsy
Feb. 07, 2023Royal Autopsy
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 ...
Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts
Jun. 03, 2023Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts
Professor Alice Roberts gets exclusive access to some of the most recently uncovered archaeology in Egypt as she travels the country by train.
Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed
Feb. 12, 2021Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed
Professor Alice Roberts follows a decade-long historical quest to reveal a hidden secret of the famous bluestones of Stonehenge. Using ...
King Arthur’s Britain: The Truth Unearthed
Sep. 16, 2018King Arthur’s Britain: The Truth Unearthed
With exclusive access to a major new excavation, Alice Roberts discovers what King Arthur’s Britain was like, including surprisingly modern ...
Britain’s Lost Waterlands: Escape to Swallows and Amazons Country
Documentary following Dick Strawbridge and Alice Roberts as they explore the British landscapes that inspired children’s author Arthur ...
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
May. 15, 2017The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet – the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
How to Build a Dinosaur
Sep. 21, 2011How to Build a Dinosaur
Dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago and we have hardly ever found a complete skeleton. So how do we turn a pile of broken bones into a ...
The Secret Life of Books
Sep. 02, 2014The Secret Life of Books
Classic books are considered with a fresh eye. Returning to the authors’ original manuscripts and letters, expert writers and performers ...
Ice Age Giants
May. 19, 2013Ice Age Giants
Professor Alice Roberts journeys 40,000 years back in time on the trail of the great beasts of the Ice Age. This was the last time that giants ...
Digging for Britain
Aug. 19, 2010Digging for Britain
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.