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Alice May Roberts (born 19 May 1973) is an English academic, TV presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of 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. Early life and education Roberts was born in Bristol in 1973, the daughter of an aeronautical engineer and an English and arts teacher. She grew up in the Bristol suburb of Westbury-on-Trym where she attended The Red Maids' School. In December 1988, she won the BBC1 Blue Peter Young Artists competition, appearing with her picture and the presenters on the front cover of the 10 December 1988 edition of the Radio Times. Roberts studied medicine at the University of Wales College of Medicine (now part of Cardiff University) and graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BCh) degree, having gained an intercalated Bachelor of Science degree in Anatomy. Research and career After graduating, Roberts worked as a junior doctor with the National Health Service in South Wales for 18 months. In 1998 she left clinical medicine and worked as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Bristol, becoming a lecturer there in 1999. She spent seven years working part-time on her PhD in paleopathology, receiving the degree in 2008. She was a senior teaching fellow at the University of Bristol Centre for Comparative and Clinical Anatomy, where her main roles were teaching clinical anatomy, embryology and physical anthropology, as well as researching osteoarchaeology and paleopathology. She stated in 2009 that she was working towards becoming a professor of anatomy. In 2009 she co-presented modules for the Beating Bipolar programme, the first online treatment package for bipolar depression, trialled by Cardiff University researchers. A clinical trial began in June 2009 involving about 100 patients with bipolar disorder in South Wales. From August 2009 until January 2012, Roberts was a visiting fellow in both the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Department of Anatomy of the University of Bristol. From 2009 to 2016 Roberts was Director of Anatomy at the NHS Severn Deanery School of Surgery and also an honorary fellow at Hull York Medical School. In February 2012 Roberts was appointed the University of Birmingham's first Professor of Public Engagement in Science. Roberts has been a member of the advisory board of Cheltenham Science Festival for 10 years and a member of the Advisory Board of the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath since 2018. Writing in the i newspaper in 2016, Roberts dismissed the aquatic ape hypothesis (AAH) as a distraction "from the emerging story of human evolution that is more interesting and complex", adding that AAH has become "a theory of everything" that is simultaneously "too extravagant and too simple". She concluded by saying that "science is about evidence, not wishful thinking". Roberts and Aoife McLysaght co-presented the 2018 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures in London. She was president of the British Science Association for the year 2019–2020. In January 2021 Roberts presented a 10-part narrative history series about the human body entitled Bodies on BBC Radio 4. Television career A presenter of science and history television documentaries, Roberts was one of the regular co-presenters of the BBC geographical and environmental series Coast. Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode, working on Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire. She served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology. In August 2006, a Time Team special episode Big Royal Dig investigated archaeology of Britain's royal palaces; Roberts was one of the main presenters. Roberts wrote and presented a BBC Two series on anatomy and health entitled Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young, which was broadcast from January 2007. She presented a five-part series on human evolution and early human migrations for that channel entitled The Incredible Human Journey, beginning on 10 May 2009. In September 2009, she co-presented (with Mark Hamilton) A Necessary Evil?, a one-hour documentary about the Burke and Hare murders. In August 2010, she presented a one-hour documentary on BBC Four, Wild Swimming, inspired by Roger Deakin's book Waterlog. Roberts presented a four-part BBC Two series on archaeology in August–September 2010, Digging for Britain. Roberts explained, "We're taking a fresh approach by showing British archaeology as it's happening out in the field, from the excitement of artefacts as they come out of the ground, through to analysing them in the lab and working out what they tell us about human history." The series returned in 2011 and again (on BBC Four) in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. In March 2011, she presented a BBC documentary in the Horizon series entitled Are We Still Evolving? Later in 2011, she presented another BBC documentary called How to Build a Dinosaur, which aired on BBC4 on 21 September 2011. She presented the series Origins of Us, which aired on BBC Two in October 2011, examining how the human body has adapted through seven million years of evolution. The last part of this series featured Roberts visiting the Rift Valley in East Africa. In April 2012, Roberts presented Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice on BBC Two. From 22 to 24 October 2012, she appeared, with co-presenter Dr George McGavin, in the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy, which discussed the remains of early hominins such as Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Australopithecus afarensis. In May and June 2013 she presented the BBC Two series Ice Age Giants. In September 2014, she was a presenter on the Horizon programme Is Your Brain Male or Female? In October 2014, she presented Spider House. In 2015, she co-presented a 3-part BBC TV documentary with Neil Oliver entitled The Celts: Blood, Iron and Sacrifice and wrote a book to tie in with the series: The Celts: Search for a Civilisation. In April–May 2016, she co-presented the BBC Two programme Food Detectives which looked at food nutrition and its effects on the body. In August 2016, she presented the BBC Four documentary Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time, which explored the Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire. In May 2017, she was a presenter of the BBC Two documentary The Day The Dinosaurs Died. In April 2018, she presented the six-part Channel 4 series Britain's Most Historic Towns, which examines the history of British towns, which was followed by a second series in May 2019 and a third series in November 2020. In September 2018, she presented the BBC Two documentary King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed, which examines new archaeological discoveries that cast light on the political and trading situation in Britain during the E.... Discover the Alice Roberts popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Alice Roberts books.
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The Secret Life of Genes
Derek HarveyGenes have a huge impact on who we are, from defining us as humans, to governing how we behave. Whether controlling our cells or creating new forms of life, discover how DNA makes ...
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Sailing Lessons
Hannah McKinnonOn the shores of Cape Cod, the Bailey sisters reunite with their longlost father for a summer of hope and forgiveness in this heartfelt novel from the author of the “sharp and evoc...
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The Making of the British Landscape
Francis PryorThis is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that s...
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The Saga of the Volsungs
Jesse ByockThe epic Viking Age stories that inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and Wagner's Ring cycleWritten in thirteenthcentury Iceland but based on ancient Norse poetry cycles, The Saga of the Vol...
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The Summer Club
Hannah McKinnonHannah McKinnon, the acclaimed author of the “charming and warmhearted” (PopSugar) The Summer House, returns with a fresh beach read about a group of outsiders threatening the stat...
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Cracking Anatomy
Ken Okona-MensahFrom your dividing cells to your beating heart, this book takes a comprehensive look at the human body and reveals the extraordinary way your anatomy and physiology intertwine.In 1...
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In The Footsteps Of Alexander The Great
Michael WoodMichael Wood retraces Alexander the Greats amazing journey from Greece to India, searching for the truth behind the legend and experiencing the tremendous scale of his achievements...
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Tamed
Alice Roberts'A masterpiece of evocative scientific storytelling.' BRIAN COX'Will appeal to fans of Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens'. Mail on Sunday The extraordinary story of the species that beca...
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Survivors
William PeskettSurvivors is William Peskett's second book in the Secker & Warburg Poets series. At one level, it marks his move 'From Belfast to Suffolk' (the title of one of the poems), but ...
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The Domesday Quest
Michael WoodIn 1086, Domesday Book, perhaps the most remarkable historical document in existence, was compiled. This tremendous story of England and its people was made at the behest of the No...
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The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse
Daniel KarlinDaniel Karlin has selected poetry written and published during the reign of Queen Victoria, (18371901). Giving pride of place to Tennyson, Robert Browning, and Christina Rossetti, ...
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Genetics
Adam RutherfordPart of the ALLNEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES.Who discovered genetics?How does gene inheritance work?Is DNA common to all living things?We inherit CODES from our parents. And these cod...
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The Darlings
Hannah McKinnonOn a secluded stretch of Cape Cod, a wedding is being planned at a beloved beach houseonly for a long kept secret to emerge that hurtles both the wedding and the family off course,...
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The Dovekeepers
Alice HoffmanAn ambitious and mesmerizing novel from the bestselling author of Rules of Magic. The Dovekeepers is “striking….Hoffman grounds her expansive, intricately woven, and deepest new no...
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Engineer In The Garden
Colin TudgeToday we are developing a science that could change the world for good or ill more quickly and more profoundly than ever before. The science of genetics promises or threatens n...
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Humanism
Peter CaveLife does not become empty and meaningless in a godless universe.This is the contention at the heart of humanism, the philosophy concerned with making sense of the world through re...
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Bold Words from Black Women
Tamara PizzoliCelebrate the power of Black womanhood in this firstofitskind collection of inspirational quotes from fifty activists, artists, and leaders, featuring bold, attentiongrabbing illus...
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On the Good Life
Cicero & Grant MichaelFor the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume br...
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Mystic Summer
Hannah McKinnon“When two roads diverge...take the one that leads to the beach! Hannah McKinnon delivers a charming gem of a novel in Mystic Summer. I adored this book.” Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New Y...
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Skin Deep
Gavin EvansThe dark heart of race science… and why it’s nonsense.Racial differences are rooted in biological reality, right? That’s certainly what a small group of anthropologists, psychologi...
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The Hilltop Inn
Alice V. RobertsJackie Bowers, widowed for two years, recently moved five hundred miles to Ponderosa, a small town in Northern Arizona, where she purchased The Hilltop Inn, a Bed and Breakfast, a ...
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The Contract
William PalmerOne day in June 1931 the body of a young girl was found on a lonely beach in Long Island, New York. She was bruised and there were some signs that she had been raped. It was though...
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Urne-Burial
Thomas BrowneThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They ...
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50 Genetics Ideas You Really Need to Know
Mark HendersonIn recent years knowledge of our genetic code has changed our understanding of life on Earth. New genetic technologies are transforming the way we live and promise treatments for o...
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Alice Ellefsen v. William Dibblee Roberts
Supreme Court Of UtahCALLISTER, Chief Justice: Plaintiff initiated this action to recover for the personal injuries and property damage that she sustained in a vehicular collision with defen...
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The View from Here
Hannah McKinnonFrom the acclaimed author of Sailing Lessons and Mystic Summera “charming gem of a novel” (Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author)an evocative and moving tale about...
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Wolf Road
Alice RobertsDiscover the history of our lifetime through one girl's adventure, in the epic new children's novel from bestselling author and broadcaster, Professor Alice Roberts. 'A fine storyt...
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Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt
Rosalie DavidThe ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile their life source was a divine gift. Religion and magic permeated their civilization, and this book provides a unique insight into th...
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The Art of Innovation
Ian Blatchford & Tilly BlythBased on the landmark Radio 4 series, this beautifully illustrated modern history of the connections between science and art offers a new perspective on what that relationship ha...
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Dogs of the Deadlands
Anthony McGowan‘It broke my heart and then splinted it back together again... Magnificent.’ Hannah Gold, bestselling author of The Last Bear ‘A dog’s eye perspective that’s so vivid you can almos...
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Nuclear Deterrence
Sir Lawrence FreedmanPart of the new Ladybird Expert series, Nuclear Deterrence is an accessible and authoritative introduction to the deterrent tactics employed to prevent war, drawing on the unpreced...
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Humanism
Peter CaveThe quintessential guide to living a meaningful life without God.Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? With histo...
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What I Believe
Andrew CopsonDiscover the rich diversity of nonreligious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, ...
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The Summer House
Hannah McKinnonWhen Flossy Merrill summons her children to the beloved family beach house to celebrate their father’s eightieth birthday, both cherished memories and longkept secrets come to ligh...
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Message in the Sand
Hannah McKinnonAn emotional and unforgettable tale of a small town irrevocably affected by an unforeseen and shocking eventfrom the author of the “charming gem of a novel” (Elin Hilderbrand, #1 N...
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Assurances
J. O. MorganWINNER OF THE COSTA POETRY AWARD 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTIONA warpoem both historic and frighteningly topical, Assurances begins in the 1950s dur...
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Big Bangs
Howard GoodallThe dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music discoveries that changed the course of history. Who first invented 'Doh Re Mi...'?What do we mea...
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Books do Furnish a Life
Richard Dawkins'A rich feast of his essays, reviews, forewords, squibs and conversations, in which talent and passion are married to deep knowledge.' Matt Ridley'Enjoy the unfailing clarity of h...
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Early Irish Myths and Sagas
Jeffrey GantzFirst written down in the eighth century AD, these early Irish stories depict a far older world part myth, part legend and part history. Rich with magic and achingly beautiful, th...
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The Lies We Tell
Niki MackayLast night I betrayed my husband.This morning my daughter disappeared.My husband may have forgiven my first mistake. But he will never forget this.And so I have to find her.Before ...