Alice Roberts
Also Known As: Dr Alice Roberts, Professor Alice Roberts
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bristol, England, UK
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How to Build a Dinosaur
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-21
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The Lost Scrolls of Vesuvius
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Overview: Investigates the greatest vanishing act in the history of our planet - the sudden disappearance of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-05-15
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Is Your Brain Male or Female?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-29
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Brian Cox: Space, Time & Videotape
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-09
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Wild Swimming
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-03
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A Night with the Stars
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-12-18
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Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-12
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Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-28
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Spider House
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-29
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Britain's Favourite Foods - Are They Good for You?
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-14
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Britain's Lost Waterlands: Escape to Swallows and Amazons Country
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-02
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The Greatest Tomb on Earth: Secrets of Ancient China
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-16
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Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-13
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The Infinite Monkey Cage: 100th Episode TV Special
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-07-13
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King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-09-16
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Ireland's Treasures Uncovered
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-15
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Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary History Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-02-12
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The Lost Scrolls of Pompeii: New Revelations
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-05-12
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