Ep. 361 - Professor Alice Roberts
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Professor Alice Roberts is and academic and presenter who has presented more than a hundred television documentaries, ranging across human biology, history and archaeology. Her longest running series, BBC Two’s Digging for Britain has been going strong for more than ten years. She first appeared on television in 2001, as a human bone specialist on Channel 4’s Time Team. She went on to present Coast on BBC Two, and then to write and present a range of television series for the BBC, including The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us and Ice Age Giants, as well as several Horizon programmes. She’s also fronted several history series on Channel 4 including Britain’s Most Historic Towns, Fortress Britain and Ancient Egypt by Train, as well as Curse of the Ancients and Royal Autopsy on Sky History. She’s written numerous popular science books including The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 .
Alice Roberts is guest number 361 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things she'd like to put in a time capsule; four she’d like to preserve and one she’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
For tour tickets, books and everything else Alice Roberts, visit - alice-roberts.co.uk .
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| 0:00.0 | An Apple original film, Blitz. |
| 0:02.0 | Please, Mom. Don't set him me away. |
| 0:04.0 | It's only until all this is over. |
| 0:06.0 | Steve McQueen's Blitz is a triumph. |
| 0:09.0 | Your son did not arrive at his destination. |
| 0:11.0 | You were meant to be looking after him. Where's my boy? |
| 0:14.0 | Critics Rade. |
| 0:16.0 | Sershya Ronan is superb. |
| 0:18.0 | I just want to go home. |
| 0:19.0 | A monumental achievement in British cinema. I'll be back when I sound my boy. |
| 0:23.6 | A masterpiece. Blitz. Streaming on Apple TV Plus 22nd of November. Subscription required. |
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