Scientist Alice Roberts searches the (archeological) truth about the legendary King Arthur in the 12th century stories of bishop Geoffroy of Monmouth and Norman poet Robert Wace. She discovers that a fortified palace on the coast of Cornwall had relations with the medieval Mediterranean and Nordic societies.
Great Britain might be a small country but it has a huge history. Everywhere you stand, there are worlds beneath your feet – and every year hundreds of excavations bring lost treasures to the surface.
These amazing historical excavations are the subject of Digging For Britain, a landmark four-part history series for BBC Two.
Presented by Dr Alice Roberts, Digging For Britain re...
时间回到两万年前，那时，我们所在的地球是一个非常不同的世界。北半球被冰川覆盖，巨大的冰河冲下山谷，延伸到平原，随着海平面下降，大陆开始升起。体积庞大的长毛兽和凶猛的食肉动物统治世界，一些动物则选择迁徙。它们要穿过广袤而陌生的平原。在它们当中，人类作为杂食动物，在求生的过程中也不得不面对挑战。通过独有的挖掘方法和最先进的法医分析以及壮观的电脑图像界面，《冰河期巨兽》回到史前大陆，发掘古老而精致的史前动物拼图，从而以史前动物的视角再现了冰川时期。
The BAFTA award-winning series Coast returns for a brand new journey around the British Isles and for the first time visits the shores of our European neighbours. Revealing the secrets of our coastline... and our neighbours' too! Coast and Beyond tells the exciting stories behind the familiar and lesser-known wonders of the British coastline, and ventures for the first time bey...
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.
Last year in Britain we spent over ￡84 billion on food. With each beep of the till, every item of food we buy is recorded and scrutinised. It produces an extraordinary shopping list - what we're buying mos...
Using 50 years of BBC history archive film, Dr Alice Roberts explores how our views and understanding of Roman Britain have changed and evolved over the decades.
Along the way she investigates a diverse range of subjects from the Roman invasion, through Hadrian's Wall, the Vindolanda tablets and the eventual collapse of Roman rule. Drawing on the work of archaeologists and hist...
Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate if male and female brains really are wired differently.
New research suggests that the connections in men and women's brains follow different patterns, patterns which may explain typical forms of male and female behaviour. But are these patterns innate, or are they shaped by the world around us
Using a team of human lab...
Professor Alice Roberts reveals the natural history of the most famous of Ice Age animals - the woolly mammoth. Mammoths have transfixed humans since the depths of the last Ice Age, when their herds roamed across what is now Europe and Asia. Although these curious members of the elephant family have now been extinct for thousands of years, scientists can now paint an incredibly...
爱丽斯·罗伯茨教授身怀着她的第二个孩子，她想在他出生之前探索“人之为人”这个问题。人类基因中有99%的部分是与黑猩猩相同的；然而从出生的那一刻起，人类的生活就完全不一样。所以，人类是否仅仅是一个普通的物种，抑或人类有特殊之处？
爱丽斯教授探索了我们的身体结构、我们的基因、以及最终我们的大脑，试图发现什么终究造就了人类。
The first series of Coast rekindled the nation's love affair with our spectacular and often forgotten coastal heritage.
Now, the BAFTA award-winning programme is back to explore new secrets and stories that add to the unique picture that is being created of that British coastline.
Coast celebrates that unique character of the British Isles, featuring stories about the people., ...
The journey continues in the third and most ambitious series of the BAFTA award winning series. Coast's team of experts explore new stretches of British coastline and visit a few old favourites, discovering fresh stories and hidden secrets from the northern most tip of Britain to the continental charms of the Channel Islands. Uncover the fascinating stories of the people who li...
