Alice May Roberts FRSB is an English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. She was president of the charity Humanists UK between January 2019 and May 2022. She is now a vice president of the organisation.
Known For
Credits
Cast Credits
Ancient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts (2025)
Starring as Presenter
(5 episodes)
- Episode 1x05: Ephasus to Troy (Apr 12, 2025)
- Episode 1x04: Cyclades to Turkey (Apr 5, 2025)
- Episode 1x03: Corinth to the Cyclades (Mar 29, 2025)
- Episode 1x02: Athens (Mar 22, 2025)
- Episode 1x01: Thessaloniki to Delphi (Mar 15, 2025)
Fortress Britain with Alice Roberts (2023)
Starring as Alice Roberts
(4 episodes)
- Episode 1x04: Episode 4 - The Norman Takeover (Mar 25, 2023)
- Episode 1x03: Episode 3 - Avoiding Armageddon (Mar 25, 2023)
- Episode 1x02: Episode 2 - Halting Hitler (Mar 25, 2023)
- Episode 1x01: Episode 1 - Henry VIII - Going It Alone (Mar 25, 2023)
Ancient Egypt by Train (2023)
Starring as Presenter
(4 episodes)
- Episode 1x04: Aswan (Mar 12, 2023)
- Episode 1x03: Luxor (Mar 5, 2023)
- Episode 1x02: Cairo (Feb 19, 2023)
- Episode 1x01: Alexandria (Feb 12, 2023)
Royal Autopsy (2023)
Starring as Presenter
(6 episodes)
- Episode 2x04: Anne: The Forgotten Queen (Apr 23, 2024)
- Episode 2x03: Henry IV: The Usurper (Apr 16, 2024)
- Episode 2x02: Mary I: Bloody Mary (Apr 9, 2024)
- Episode 2x01: George IV: The Party King (Apr 2, 2024)
- Episode 1x02: Elizabeth I (Feb 14, 2023)
- Episode 1x01: King Charles II (Feb 7, 2023)
Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts (2022)
Starring as Presenter
(5 episodes)
- Episode 1x05: Medieval Mystery (Apr 11, 2022)
- Episode 1x04: God's Holy Warriors (Apr 4, 2022)
- Episode 1x03: The Darkest Age (Mar 28, 2022)
- Episode 1x02: Rome's Rise and Fall (Mar 21, 2022)
- Episode 1x01: Ancient Global Warming (Mar 14, 2022)
The Secrets to Civilization (2021)
Starring as Narrator
(2 episodes)
- Episode 1x02: Cities and Empires (Sep 16, 2021)
- Episode 1x01: Bronze Age Catastrophe (Sep 16, 2021)
Morning Live (2020)
Guest starring as Alice Roberts
- Episode 3x119: Punam Krishan, Alice Roberts, Jacqui Joseph, Nancy Xu, Victoria Smurfit (Jan 11, 2022)
Britain's Most Historic Towns (2018)
Starring as Presenter
(19 episodes)
- Episode 3x07: Industrial Revolution Manchester (Dec 19, 2020)
- Episode 3x06: Georgian Edinburgh (Dec 12, 2020)
- Episode 3x05: Glasgow's Age of Steam (Dec 5, 2020)
- Episode 3x04: Elizabethan Plymouth (Nov 28, 2020)
- Episode 3x03: Portsmouth - Age of Empire (Nov 21, 2020)
- Episode 3x02: Restoration London (Nov 14, 2020)
- Episode 3x01: Medieval Lincoln (Nov 7, 2020)
- Episode 2x06: Stewart Stirling (Jun 22, 2019)
- Episode 2x05: Plantagenet Canterbury (Jun 15, 2019)
- Episode 2x04: Civil War Oxford (Jun 8, 2019)
- Episode 2x03: Edwardian Cardiff (Jun 1, 2019)
- Episode 2x02: Georgian Bristol (May 25, 2019)
- Episode 2x01: Wartime Dover (May 18, 2019)
- Episode 1x06: Victorian Belfast (May 12, 2018)
- Episode 1x05: Regency Cheltenham (May 5, 2018)
- Episode 1x04: Tudor Norwich (Apr 28, 2018)
- Episode 1x03: Norman Winchester (Apr 21, 2018)
- Episode 1x02: Viking York (Apr 14, 2018)
- Episode 1x01: Roman Chester (Apr 7, 2018)
The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice with Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver (2015)
Starring as Presenter
(3 episodes)
Detectorists (2014)
Guest starring as Professor Alice Roberts
- Episode S03 Special: Special (Dec 26, 2022)
Ice Age Giants (2013)
Starring as Presenter
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x03: Last of the Giants (Jun 2, 2013)
- Episode 1x02: Land of the Cave Bear (May 26, 2013)
- Episode 1x01: Land of the Sabre-Tooth (May 19, 2013)
Prehistoric Autopsy (2012)
Starring as Presenter
(3 episodes)
- Episode 1x03: Lucy (Oct 24, 2012)
- Episode 1x02: Homo Erectus (Oct 23, 2012)
- Episode 1x01: Neanderthal (Oct 22, 2012)
Digging for Britain (2010)
Starring as Prof Alice Roberts - Presenter
(58 episodes)
- Episode 12x06: Lost Mansions and Impaled Prisoners (Jan 7, 2025)
- Episode 12x05: Chariots and Slaves (Jan 7, 2025)
- Episode 12x04: Roman Crime and Ancient DNA (Jan 7, 2025)
- Episode 12x03: Island Treasures (Jan 7, 2025)
- Episode 12x02: Dinosaur Highway and Roman Sauna (Jan 7, 2025)
- Episode 12x01: Saxon Gold and Buried Coins (Jan 7, 2025)
- Episode 11x06: Forgotten Fortresses and Lost Villages (Jan 2, 2024)
- Episode 11x05: 3000-Year-Old Shoes and Giant Axeheads (Jan 2, 2024)
- Episode 11x04: A Roman Mystery and Waterloo's Disappearing Dead (Jan 2, 2024)
- Episode 11x03: A Norman Panic Room and a Mesolithic Fish Trap (Jan 2, 2024)
- Episode 11x02: Anglo-Saxon Gold and Rebellious Nuns (Jan 2, 2024)
- Episode 11x01: The Roman Emperor's Bathhouse (Jan 2, 2024)
- Episode 10x06: Headless Romans and Anglo Saxon Gold (Jan 1, 2023)
- Episode 10x05: Roman Mosaics and Ancient Weapons (Jan 1, 2023)
- Episode 10x04: Mystery Shipwreck and a Roman Army Camp (Jan 1, 2023)
- Episode 10x03: Ice Age Camp and a Saint with Syphilis (Jan 1, 2023)
- Episode 10x02: Arthur's Stone and a Georgian Mine (Jan 1, 2023)
- Episode 10x01: Roman Towns and Tudor Shipwrecks (Jan 1, 2023)
- Episode 9x06: Episode 6 - North (Jan 13, 2022)
- Episode 9x05: Episode 5 - West (Jan 12, 2022)
- Episode 9x04: Episode 4 - Midlands (Jan 11, 2022)
- Episode 9x03: Episode 3 - North (Jan 6, 2022)
- Episode 9x02: Episode 2 - South (Jan 5, 2022)
- Episode 9x01: Episode 1 - East (Jan 4, 2022)
- Episode 8x04: WWII Special (Dec 11, 2019)
- Episode 8x03: South (Dec 4, 2019)
- Episode 8x02: North (Nov 27, 2019)
- Episode 8x01: West (Nov 20, 2019)
- Episode 7x04: Iron Age Revealed (Dec 19, 2018)
- Episode 7x03: East (Dec 12, 2018)
- Episode 7x02: West (Dec 5, 2018)
- Episode 7x01: North (Nov 28, 2018)
- Episode 6x04: The Horsemen of Hadrian's Wall (Dec 13, 2017)
- Episode 6x03: North (Dec 6, 2017)
- Episode 6x02: East (Nov 29, 2017)
- Episode 6x01: West (Nov 22, 2017)
- Episode 5x03: East (Dec 20, 2016)
- Episode 5x02: North (Dec 13, 2016)
- Episode 5x01: West (Dec 6, 2016)
- Episode 4x03: North (Mar 24, 2016)
- Episode 4x02: East (Mar 17, 2016)
- Episode 4x01: West (Mar 10, 2016)
- Episode 3x03: North (Feb 17, 2015)
- Episode 3x02: West (Feb 10, 2015)
- Episode 3x01: East (Feb 3, 2015)
- Episode 2x04: Ice and Stone (Sep 30, 2011)
- Episode 2x03: Age of Bronze and Iron (Sep 24, 2011)
- Episode 2x02: Invaders (Sep 16, 2011)
- Episode 2x01: Britannia (Sep 9, 2011)
- Episode 1x04: The Tudors (Sep 10, 2010)
- Episode 1x03: Anglo-Saxons (Sep 2, 2010)
- Episode 1x02: Prehistory (Aug 26, 2010)
- Episode 1x01: The Romans (Aug 19, 2010)
- Episode S08 Special: The Greatest Discoveries: 4 Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Apr 7, 2020)
- Episode S08 Special: The Greatest Discoveries: 3 Roman Conquest (Mar 31, 2020)
- Episode S08 Special: The Greatest Discoveries: 2 A Land of Tribes (Mar 24, 2020)
- Episode S08 Special: The Greatest Discoveries: 1 The Earliest Settlers (Mar 17, 2020)
- Episode S03 Special: Digging for Ireland (Feb 23, 2015)
The Incredible Human Journey (2009)
Starring as Alice Roberts
(5 episodes)
- Episode 1x05: The Americas (Jun 14, 2009)
- Episode 1x04: Australia (May 31, 2009)
- Episode 1x03: Europe (May 24, 2009)
- Episode 1x02: Asia (May 17, 2009)
- Episode 1x01: Out of Africa (May 10, 2009)
Would I Lie to You? (2007)
Guest starring as Alice Roberts
- Episode 16x06: Munya Chawawa, Bob Mortimer, Alice Roberts, Snoochie Shy (Feb 10, 2023)
The One Show (2006)
Guest starring as Alice Roberts
(2 episodes)
- Episode 2019-05-20: 20/05/2019 (May 20, 2019)
- Episode 2018-06-13: 13/06/2018 (Jun 13, 2018)
Celebrity Mastermind (2002)
Guest starring as Alice Roberts
- Episode 11x02: Bobby Friction, Alice Roberts, Ewen MacIntosh, Simon Evans (Dec 28, 2012)
Secrets of the Dead (2000)
Guest starring as Presenter
- Episode 18x03: King Arthur's Lost Kingdom (Mar 27, 2019)
Time Team (1994)
Starring as Osteoarchaeologist / Palaeopathologist
(14 episodes)
- Episode 20x13: Twenty Years of Time Team (Mar 24, 2013)
- Episode 19x12: Time Team's Guide to Burial (Apr 29, 2012)
- Episode 12x12: Hunting the Romans in South Shields - Tower Blocks and Togas - South Shields, Tyne and Wear (Mar 20, 2005)
- Episode 11x12: The Lost City of Roxburgh - Roxburgh, Scottish Borders (Mar 21, 2004)
- Episode 11x04: Saxon Burials on the Ridge - South Carlton, Lincolnshire (Jan 25, 2004)
- Episode 11x01: In Search of the Brigittine Abbey - Syon House, London (Jan 4, 2004)
- Episode 10x13: Jailhouse Rocks - Appleby, Cumbria (Mar 30, 2003)
- Episode 10x10: Rescuing the Dead - Leven, Fife (Mar 9, 2003)
- Episode 10x07: Death in a Crescent - Bath, Somerset (Feb 16, 2003)
- Episode 10x04: The Giant's Grave - Fetlar, Shetland Islands (Jan 26, 2003)
- Episode 10x03: Peak District Practices - Carsington, Derbyshire (Jan 19, 2003)
- Episode 10x01: Garden Secrets - Raunds, Northamptonshire (Jan 5, 2003)
- Episode 9x13: Seven Buckets and a Buckle - Breamore, Hampshire (Mar 31, 2002)
- Episode 8x01: An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in Lincolnshire - Normanton, Lincolnshire (Jan 7, 2001)
Timewatch (1982)
Guest starring as Presenter
(3 episodes)
- Episode 2017-07-18: The Vikings: Foe or Friend? (Jul 18, 2017)
- Episode 2016-01-27: Stonehenge (Jan 27, 2016)
- Episode 2015-02-17: Roman Britain (Feb 17, 2015)
Horizon (1964)
Guest starring as Alice Roberts
- Episode 2016-10-12: The Lost Tribes of Humanity (Oct 12, 2016)