Alice Roberts

Alice Roberts

Born: May 19, 1973
in Bristol, England, UK
Alice Roberts is an academic, writer and broadcaster. She's interested in the structure of humans, how we function, and our place in the wider environment.

Movies for Alice Roberts...

Title: Ancient Egypt by Train with Alice Roberts
Released: June 3, 2023
Type: TV
Professor Alice Roberts gets exclusive access to some of the most recently uncovered archaeology in Egypt as she travels the country by train.
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Title: Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: March 25, 2023
Type: TV
Alice Roberts and her fellow historians explore Britain's long-standing obsession with invasion, by examining the physical reminders that are still here today
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Title: Royal Autopsy
Character: Self - Host
Released: February 7, 2023
Type: TV
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.
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Lost Scrolls of Vesuvius
Title: Lost Scrolls of Vesuvius
Character: Host
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Professor Alice Roberts uncovers the science being used by computer scientist Professor Brent Seales as he utilises cutting-edge technology to read hundreds of carbonised scrolls that were buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
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Title: Curse of the Ancients
Character: Presentatie
Released: March 14, 2022
Type: TV
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.
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Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed
Title: Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed
Character: Presenter
Released: February 12, 2021
Type: Movie
Professor Alice Roberts follows a decade-long historical quest to reveal a hidden secret of the famous bluestones of Stonehenge. Using cutting-edge research, a dedicated team of archaeologists led by Professor Mike Parker Pearson have painstakingly compiled evidence to fill in a 400-year gap in our knowledge of the bluestones, and to show that the original stones of Britain’s most iconic monument had a previous life. Alice joins Mike as they put together the final pieces of the puzzle, not just revealing where the stones came from, how they were moved from Wales to England or even who dragged them all the way, but also solving one of the toughest challenges that archaeologists face.
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Title: Britain's Biggest Dig
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: September 15, 2020
Type: TV
Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Yasmin Khan dig deeper into he fortunes of rich and poor in Georgian London through the excavations at St James's burial ground next to Euston station that will make way for the new HS2 terminus. They are on the hunt for the lost explorer who extended Britain's empire across the globe.
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King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed
Title: King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: September 16, 2018
Type: Movie
With exclusive access to a major new excavation, Alice Roberts discovers what King Arthur's Britain was like, including surprisingly modern connections we all share with our past.
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special
Title: The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special
Character: Self - Panelist
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the 100th episode of their hit science/comedy show, by inviting some very well known monkey cage alumni to join them. Brian Blessed, Eric Idle, Katy Brand, Dave Gorman and Andy Hamilton (to name a few) take to the stage to consider what has been learnt since Episode 1, back in November 2009. Joining them are science royalty, including Alice Roberts, American astrophysicist Neil De Grasse Tyson, Prof Sue Black and Prof Fay Dowker, to look at the big scientific discoveries that have happened in the time since Brian and Robin first hit the airwaves.
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Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts
Title: Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: June 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Anatomist Alice Roberts embarks on a quest to rebuild her own body from scratch, taking inspiration from the very best designs the natural world has to offer.
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Title: Britain's Most Historic Towns
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: April 7, 2018
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Richard Osman's House of Games
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: September 4, 2017
Type: TV
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Title: The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: May 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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The Greatest Tomb on Earth: Secrets of Ancient China
Title: The Greatest Tomb on Earth: Secrets of Ancient China
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: October 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Dan Snow, Dr Alice Roberts and Dr Albert Lin investigate a series of earth-shattering discoveries at a mighty tomb guarded by the Terracotta Warriors in China.
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Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time
Title: Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: August 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens that's been called the 'British Pompeii' due to the remarkable levels of preservation.
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Britain's Lost Waterlands: Escape to Swallows and Amazons Country
Title: Britain's Lost Waterlands: Escape to Swallows and Amazons Country
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: July 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Documentary following Dick Strawbridge and Alice Roberts as they explore the British landscapes that inspired children's author Arthur Ransome to write Swallows and Amazons.
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Title: Food Detectives
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: April 15, 2016
Type: TV
Scientist Prof Alice Roberts, chef Tom Kerridge and journalist Sean Fletcher are keen to improve your cooking, your health and your bank balance by dishing up the plain facts about our food.
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Ireland's Treasures Uncovered
Title: Ireland's Treasures Uncovered
Released: February 15, 2016
Type: Movie
The surprising tales behind treasures such as the Tara Brooch, the Broighter Hoard, the Waterford Charter Roll and others that have helped to shape and create modern Ireland.
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Title: Insert Name Here
Character: Herself - Panelist
Released: January 4, 2016
Type: TV
Comedy panel show about people with the same first name, hosted by Sue Perkins.
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Title: The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: October 5, 2015
Type: TV
Three-part documentary series in which anthropologist professor Alice Roberts and archaeologist Neil Oliver go in search of the Celts - one of the world's most mysterious ancient civilisations.
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Britain's Favourite Foods - Are They Good for You?
Title: Britain's Favourite Foods - Are They Good for You?
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: April 14, 2015
Type: Movie
Professor Alice Roberts discovers which are Britain's most popular fresh foods and uses the latest science to uncover the surprising health benefits of our favourite foods.
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Title: A Timewatch Guide
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: February 3, 2015
Type: TV
Series looking at how the BBC has revealed and interpreted monumental moments in our history. Using the BBC archive, the programmes examine changes in research covered in documentary television.
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Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
Title: Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
Character: Self
Released: November 9, 2014
Type: Movie
Professor Brian Cox is joined by two of his heroes, the actor Brian Blessed and Professor Alice Roberts. On the agenda are his TV idols from both science fiction and science fact, as well as a whole universe of other stuff.
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Spider House
Title: Spider House
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: October 29, 2014
Type: Movie
Professor Alice Roberts joins entomologist Tim Cockerill in a house filled with hundreds of spiders in a one-off documentary revealing the secret life of the spider in the home.
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Is Your Brain Male or Female?
Title: Is Your Brain Male or Female?
Character: Presenter
Released: September 29, 2014
Type: Movie
Prof. Alice Roberts and Michael Mosley look into the similarities of both gender's brains and whether nature or nurture come into play with several experiments.
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Title: The Secret Life of Books
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: September 2, 2014
Type: TV
Classic books are considered with a fresh eye. Returning to the authors' original manuscripts and letters, expert writers and performers bring their personal insights to these great works.
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Title: Ice Age Giants
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: May 19, 2013
Type: TV
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 like mammoths, woolly rhinos, and sabre-tooth cats ruled the Earth and Alice attempts to reconstruct their lives in incredible detail.
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Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them
Title: Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: January 28, 2013
Type: Movie
Professor Alice Roberts and Dr Michael Mosley examine how viruses effect the human body and how they spread, as well as examing how to stay healthy during winter.
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Title: Prehistoric Autopsy
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: October 22, 2012
Type: TV
A journey into our evolutionary past, piecing together the bodies of our prehistoric family.
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Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice
Title: Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: April 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice is a documentary presented by English anatomist Dr. Alice Roberts that reveals some of the secrets of one of the most widely known extinct animals ever. Humans have been transfixed by the Wolly Mammoth since the end of the last ice age when there were still herds of them roaming the continents of Asia and Europe. Despite many people knowing about the great Woolly Mammoth until recently very little was known about them despite ancient humans living along side them for so long; few documented accounts exist.
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A Night with the Stars
Title: A Night with the Stars
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 2011
Type: Movie
For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In his own inimitable style, Brian takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics. With the help of Jonathan Ross, Simon Pegg, Sarah Millican and James May, Brian shows how diamonds - the hardest material in nature - are made up of nothingness; how things can be in an infinite number of places at once; why everything we see or touch in the universe exists; and how a diamond in the heart of London is in communication with the largest diamond in the cosmos.
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Title: Origins of Us
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: October 17, 2011
Type: TV
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 struggle for survival.
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How to Build a Dinosaur
Title: How to Build a Dinosaur
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: September 21, 2011
Type: Movie
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 dinosaur exhibit? Dr Alice Roberts finds out how the experts put skeletons back together, with muscles, accurate postures, and even - in some cases - the correct skin color. Here's a conundrum. Most dinosaur skeletons are incomplete, so how do you create museum exhibits that are realistic? As Dr Alice Roberts discovers, it's a practical question for those putting together an exhibition at LA County's Natural History Museum, who have to design dynamic, punter-pleasing displays that also reflect the latest thinking in paleontology circles.
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Title: Pointless Celebrities
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: July 4, 2011
Type: TV
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.
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Title: Digging for Britain
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: August 19, 2010
Type: TV
Dr Alice Roberts follows a year of British archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations the length of the country.
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Wild Swimming
Title: Wild Swimming
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: August 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Alice Roberts swims in cavernous plunge pools, languid rivers and underground lakes to examine the passion for wild water swimming, following the classic swimming text Waterlog.
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Title: The Incredible Human Journey
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: May 10, 2009
Type: TV
There are seven billion humans on Earth, spread across the whole planet. Scientific evidence suggests that most of us can trace our origins to one tiny group of people who left Africa around 70,000 years ago. In this five-part series, Dr Alice Roberts follows the archaeological and genetic footprints of our ancient ancestors to find out how their journeys transformed our species into the humans we are today, and how Homo Sapiens came to dominate the planet.
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Title: The Big Questions
Character: Self
Released: September 9, 2007
Type: TV
Nicky Campbell hosts a series of moral, ethical and religious debates.
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Title: Would I Lie to You?
Character: Self
Released: June 16, 2007
Type: TV
A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.
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Title: Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: January 16, 2007
Type: TV
Health documentary series with anatomist Dr Alice Roberts
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Title: Coast
Released: July 22, 2005
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Extreme Archaeology
Character: Herself
Released: June 20, 2004
Type: TV
A new Channel 4 series takes archaeology to the edge this summer as a team of experts tackles sites across the country that are beyond the reach of normal investigations. In Extreme Archaeology, an eight-part series starting on 20 June, a team of archaeologists with help from top climbers, cavers and divers investigates amazing and unique archaeological sites throughout the UK. Many archaeological locations are beyond the reach of your average archaeologist. They are found in inaccessible caves, on treacherous cliffs, deep under water, or in locations simply too remote or dangerous for normal investigation. Their remoteness often means that their secrets are unique, but they can also be under threat from erosion or other factors and this adds a rescue element to any investigation. Using some of the most advanced scientific equipment available, and high-tech miniature cameras and communication systems to record the action, Extreme Archaeology's experts are dropped into extreme and inaccessible environments under time and other pressures that test their personal and professional skills to the limit.
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Title: Celebrity Mastermind
Character: Herself - Contestant
Released: December 26, 2003
Type: TV
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.
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Title: This Week
Character: Herself - Guest
Released: January 16, 2003
Type: TV
Andrew Neil, Michael Portillo and friends with late night political chat.
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Title: Mind Games
Character: Herself - Contestant
Released: January 10, 2003
Type: TV
Quiz show hosted by Marcus Du Sautoy who poses the trickiest puzzles to bend the minds of the team members Kathy Sykes, Irving Finkel, Jim Al-Khalili and Richard Vranch.
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Title: Time Team
Character: Herself - Expert
Released: January 16, 1994
Type: TV
Time Team is a British television series which has been aired on British Channel 4 from 1994. Created by television producer Tim Taylor and presented by actor Tony Robinson, each episode featured a team of specialists carrying out an archaeological dig over a period of three days, with Robinson explaining the process in layman's terms. This team of specialists changed throughout the series' run, although has consistently included professional archaeologists such as Mick Aston, Carenza Lewis, Francis Pryor and Phil Harding. The sites excavated over the show's run have ranged in date from the Palaeolithic right through to the Second World War.
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Title: Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
Character: Herself - Presenter
Released: January 4, 1966
Type: TV
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825. The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner. Michael Faraday initiated the first Christmas Lecture series in 1825. This came at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Faraday presented a total of nineteen series in all.
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Title: Horizon
Character: Self - Presenter
Released: February 4, 1964
Type: TV
Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.