Britain’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 ‘British Pompeii’ due to the remarkable levels of preservation.
Royal 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 and realistic way. Professor Alice…
Ancient 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
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…
King 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 connections we all share with our past.
Britain’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 James’s burial ground next to Euston…
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 Ransome to write Swallows and Amazons.
The 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
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?…
Ice 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 like mammoths, woolly…
Pandora’s Box
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his…
The 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 completely fresh perspective on the ancient world from the…
Coast
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…
Origins 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 struggle for…
Britain’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 towns and cities. In each programme Alice studies one…
A Timewatch Guide
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.
The Secret Life of Books
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.
Digging for Britain
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 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 one tiny group of people who…