Podcasts about Alice Roberts

English physician, anatomist, physical anthropologist, television presenter, author

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Tony Robinson's Cunningcast
Cunningcast S2 BEST BITS

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 41:42


In advance of the new series of his cunningly curated history podcast, coming soon, Tony looks back at the best bits of Cunningcast Series 2 with series producer Melissa FitzGerald. Series 2 features fabulous episodes about Tattoos, Bones, Jelly, Magic, Cars, Beards, Bletchley Park, Hadrians Wall, Turnips, Dr Who and more with some incredible guests including: Alice Roberts, David Mitchell, Grace Neutral, Ben Elton, Annie Gray, Richard Curtis and Sophie Aldred.If you like these best bits but haven't heard the full episodes, have a wander back on our #Cunningcast feed to check them out.Follow us on our socials and hit follow on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts to make sure you don't miss any new episodes of Cunningcast Series 3 coming soon...Instagram: @cunningcastpodX: @cunningcastpodHosted by Sir Tony RobinsonX | Instagram@SirTonyRobinsonSeries Producer: Melissa FitzGerald X | Instagram@melissafitzg Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Off Air... with Jane and Fi
I feel the same about marriage as I do black pudding... (with Prof. Alice Roberts)

Off Air... with Jane and Fi

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 43:10


We're building a wall... of postcards! Keep em coming. Jane and Fi also chat MAFs, fruity ITV, black pudding and derelict buildings. Plus, Professor Alice Roberts, anatomist and biological anthropologist, discusses delivering the Octavia Hill Lecture in partnership with the National Trust and Times Radio. If you fancy sending us a postcard, the address is:Jane and FiTimes Radio, News UK1 London Bridge StreetLondonSE1 9GFPlease send your suggestions for the next book club pick!If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radioFollow us on Instagram! @janeandfiPodcast Producer: Eve SalusburyExecutive Producer: Rosie Cutler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)
Alice Roberts: How Archaeology is Answering Humanity's Biggest Questions

The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2025 24:48


Archeologist and anthropologist, Dr. Alice Roberts talks to host Steve Paikin about how her work is trying to answer some of humanity's biggest questions through the lens of archeology and genetics. She's the author of "Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond," and the host of "Digging for Britain." She's in Canada to promote a new live show called "From Cell to Civilization." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zo Williams: Voice of Reason
Defiant Humanism in Intimate Relationships: Love as an Act of Existential Insurgency

Zo Williams: Voice of Reason

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 72:59


Human intimacy thrives on contradiction. We crave connection yet armor ourselves with projections; we seek healing while clinging to trauma's familiar syntax. Defiant humanism—rooted in Alice Roberts' call to “reclaim agency through radical presence” and Sarah Bakewell's celebration of “humanist freethinking”—invites couples to wage war against these paradoxes by engaging only in the raw now.

Inheritance Tracks
Alice Roberts

Inheritance Tracks

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 6:44


Professor Alice Roberts is an anatomist, broadcaster and author famous for making science accessible and captivating. Initially she wanted to be a doctor and studied medicine and anatomy at Cardiff University and developed an interest in biological anthropology, looking at what ancient skeletons can tell us about human evolution…getting human remains to give up their secrets. The clavicle is her favourite bone in the body...but what else can we learn about Alice Roberts from unearthing her Inheritance Tracks?Inherited: A Whiter Shade Of Pale by Procol Harum Passed on: Girl from Mars by AshProducer: Ben Mitchell(This episode is a repeat from 15th June 2019)

Saturday Live
Jackie Kay, Huw Ware, Peter Murray, Alice Roberts

Saturday Live

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2025 62:09


The literary alchemist Jackie Kay, poet, author and playwright, whose words dance between the very personal and the universal - she wants us to Coorie Doon. We've scored a bullseye in getting darts referee and LGBT+ ambassador Huw Ware on the show...so…game on! Sir Peter Murray, the visionary sculptor of landscapes and minds alike reveals how he went from an educationalist to founder of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. All that plus the Inheritance Tracks of Professor Alice Roberts are dug up.Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Huw Stephens Producer: Ben Mitchell

My Time Capsule
Best of 2024 - Part 1

My Time Capsule

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 59:29


The best of our guests from 2024! Part 1 features Iain Stirling, Professor Alice Roberts, Jason Manford, Anette Badland, Professor Chris Lintott, Robin Askwith, Kim Leadbeater MP, Ainsley Harriott, Colin Hoult, Jess Conrad, James O'Brien, Karl Howman, Chloe Petts and Lewis MacLeod.Follow My Time Capsule on Instagram: @mytimecapsulepodcast & Twitter & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens & Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Conversations
Alice Roberts on the skeletons' secrets

Conversations

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2024 52:00


Professor Alice Roberts examines the bones of those who died between five and ten centuries ago, solving the mysteries of how they lived and died.Professor Alice Roberts wants us to listen to skeletons. She's an anatomist and archaeologist who says that posthumous examination of our bones can reveal so much more than what someone might have looked like.Whether it's about our health, our diet, what we did for a living, how we died, and whether that was a violent end — epic stories are written into our bones.Recently Alice has been examining the bones of those who died between five and ten centuries ago to find out more about them. She's uncovered some amazing life and death stories.There's the sad and gothic tale of a medieval Anchoress, who was walled up inside a church in York for 28 years; the lives of the drowned sailors who died in the sinking of a ship called the Mary Rose, once owned by Henry the Eighth; and new revelations about a terrible massacre ordered by a King in the year 1004 AD.This episode of Conversations explores death, anatomy, science, burial, history, origin stories, historic mysteries, ancestry, biology, ghost stories, Catholic Church, STIs, syphilis, medical history, early medicine, arthritis, strong bones, genocide.

Afternoons with Deborah Knight
Professor Alice Roberts joins Michael in-studio to discuss human biology and history

Afternoons with Deborah Knight

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 16:57


Distinguished English academic, TV presenter and author Alice Roberts chats with Michael. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

PuroJazz
Puro Jazz 04 de noviembre, 2024

PuroJazz

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 57:36


CHARLIE PARKER “Charlie Parker's Reboppers” – New York, November 26, 1945Ko-ko (2,3), Billie's bounce (1,3), Now's the time (1,3)Miles Davis (tp-1) Dizzy Gillespie (tp-2,p-3) Charlie Parker (as) Argonne Thornton (p-4) “Charlie Parker All Stars” – New York, May 8, 1947Donna LeeMiles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Bud Powell (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) “CHICAGO RHYTHMDIZZY GILLESPIEKINGS” “Dizzy Gillespie Sextet” – New York, February 28, 1945Groovin' high, Dizzy atmosphereDizzy Gillespie (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Clyde Hart (p) Remo Palmieri (g) Slam Stewart (b) Cozy Cole (d) “Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet” – New York, May 11, 1945Salt peanuts (dg,ens vcl),Dizzy Gillespie (tp,vcl) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig (p) Curly Russell (b) Sidney Catlett “Shaw ‘Nuff” – New York, May 15, 1946Oop Bop Sha BamDizzy Gillespie (tp, vo) Sonny Stitt (as) Milt Jackson (vib) Al Haig (p) Ray Brown (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Gil Fuller, Alice Roberts (vo) THELONIOUS MONK “Thelonious Monk Trio” – New York, October 24, 1947Ruby my dear, Well you needn't, Off minorThelonious Monk (p) Gene Ramey (b) Art Blakey (d) “Thelonious Monk Quintet” – New York, November 21, 1947Monk's mood, ‘Round midnight George Tait (tp) Sahib Shihab (as) [aka Edmund Gregory (as) ] Thelonious Monk (p) Bob Paige (b) Art Blakey (d) “BUD POWELL TRIO” Linden, NJ, August 1949I'll remember April, Somebody loves me, I should careBud Powell (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) New York, May 1, 1951Un poco locoBud Powell (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 04 de noviembre, 2024 at PuroJazz.

PuroJazz
Puro Jazz 04 de noviembre, 2024

PuroJazz

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2024 57:36


CHARLIE PARKER “Charlie Parker's Reboppers” – New York, November 26, 1945Ko-ko (2,3), Billie's bounce (1,3), Now's the time (1,3)Miles Davis (tp-1) Dizzy Gillespie (tp-2,p-3) Charlie Parker (as) Argonne Thornton (p-4) “Charlie Parker All Stars” – New York, May 8, 1947Donna LeeMiles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Bud Powell (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d) “CHICAGO RHYTHMDIZZY GILLESPIEKINGS” “Dizzy Gillespie Sextet” – New York, February 28, 1945Groovin' high, Dizzy atmosphereDizzy Gillespie (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Clyde Hart (p) Remo Palmieri (g) Slam Stewart (b) Cozy Cole (d) “Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet” – New York, May 11, 1945Salt peanuts (dg,ens vcl),Dizzy Gillespie (tp,vcl) Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig (p) Curly Russell (b) Sidney Catlett “Shaw ‘Nuff” – New York, May 15, 1946Oop Bop Sha BamDizzy Gillespie (tp, vo) Sonny Stitt (as) Milt Jackson (vib) Al Haig (p) Ray Brown (b) Kenny Clarke (d) Gil Fuller, Alice Roberts (vo) THELONIOUS MONK “Thelonious Monk Trio” – New York, October 24, 1947Ruby my dear, Well you needn't, Off minorThelonious Monk (p) Gene Ramey (b) Art Blakey (d) “Thelonious Monk Quintet” – New York, November 21, 1947Monk's mood, ‘Round midnight George Tait (tp) Sahib Shihab (as) [aka Edmund Gregory (as) ] Thelonious Monk (p) Bob Paige (b) Art Blakey (d) “BUD POWELL TRIO” Linden, NJ, August 1949I'll remember April, Somebody loves me, I should careBud Powell (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) New York, May 1, 1951Un poco locoBud Powell (p) Curly Russell (b) Max Roach (d) Continue reading Puro Jazz 04 de noviembre, 2024 at PuroJazz.

Conversations with Cornesy
Conversations with Cornesy - Professor Alice Roberts

Conversations with Cornesy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 42:47 Transcription Available


English academic, TV presenter and author Professor Alice Roberts joins Graham Cornes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Afternoons with Simon Beaumont
Archaeology and history presenter Professor Alice Roberts on her tour to Australia

Afternoons with Simon Beaumont

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2024 14:58


Her books and TV shows have ranged in subject from the evolution of life – across all species and how Homo Sapiens came to be, the role of genetics, the discovery of new cultures and lost civilisations and now Professor Alice Roberts is bringing her live show ‘From Cell to Civilization' to Australia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trash Talk... with Count Binface
Professor Alice Roberts

Trash Talk... with Count Binface

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2024 34:21


We're back - after a recharging week off, the podcast is back with EPISODE 20 and what an episode for you this week as Professor Alice Roberts helps write a new manifesto point (mandatory roller-skating for doctors) we big up open-access science, and discuss the possibility that ancient humans were just taking the piss. Plus we say farewell, goodbye, good riddance and some other words to Priti Patel - the first to leave the Tory "leadership" contest. As ever thank you for listening - don't forget to follow the podcast, and maybe even say something nice about it on social media.CB Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Infinite Monkey Cage
The Infinite Monkey's Guide To… Failure

The Infinite Monkey Cage

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2024 16:54


Brian Cox and Robin Ince embrace failure in its many forms, with a frank look at the importance of making mistakes. They examine the flaws in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution with the anthropologist Alice Roberts, as she tells them no idea is totally watertight. And sometimes scientific error even leads to important discoveries – just ask the heart patients who took a pill that did nothing for their medical condition but did boost their libido and which we now know as Viagra. But other failures in the field of medicine have had more serious consequences, and Dr Chris van Tulleken questions why we're not better at drug development for the poorest parts of the world.New episodes will be released on Wednesdays. If you're in the UK, listen to the full series on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyFProducer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra FeachemEpisodes featured: Series 15: Science's Epic Fails Series 11: Serendipity Series 25: What Have We Learnt From Covid?

Great Lives
Queen Emma

Great Lives

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2024 27:37


Professor Alice Roberts, best known as the presenter of Digging for Britain, picks the wife of two English kings and the mother of two English kings. Queen Emma was born in Normandy and came to England as a diplomatic peaceweaver when she married Aethelred in 1002. Somehow she survived the invasion of the Danes under Swein Forkbeard and married his son, King Canute after Aethelred's death. Together with help from Professor Janina Ramirez - author of Femina - and Patricia Bracewell who has written a trilogy of historical novels based on Emma's life, Alice pieces together an extraordinary life, the richest woman in England, aunt of William the Conqueror, mother of Edward the Confessor.Alice Roberts is Professor of Public Engagement in Science at Birmingham University and the author of Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond Programme also includes recorded audio of Professor Pauline Stafford, author of Gendering the Middle AgesThe producer in Bristol is Miles Warde

Desert Island Discs
Professor Alice Roberts, scientist and broadcaster

Desert Island Discs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2024 36:56


Professor Alice Roberts is one of the most popular science communicators in Britain today. As the presenter of the BBC archaeology programme Digging for Britain, she reveals the underground mysteries of our collective past to millions of viewers. Alice was born in Bristol and developed an interest in science from an early age – examining insects under her microscope in order to draw them and digging up bits of pottery in her parents' vegetable patch. At the age of eight she was entranced as she watched a live feed which showed researchers at Bristol University unwrapping an Egyptian Mummy. Alice studied medicine in Cardiff and worked as a house officer doing paediatric surgery and then taught anatomy to students at Bristol University. She followed this up with a PhD in paleopathology, the study of disease in old bones, which led to her first television appearance as a bone expert on the Channel 4 series Time Team. Alice has written several books that explore human evolution and history and in 2012 she was appointed the first Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. DISC ONE: Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies DISC TWO: Temple of Love - Sisters of Mercy DISC THREE: Apotheosis - Austin Wintory DISC FOUR: Cherub Rock (2011 Remaster) - The Smashing Pumpkins DISC FIVE: Times Like These (BBC Radio 1 Stay Home Live Lounge) - Live Lounge Allstars DISC SIX: Sugar - System Of A Down DISC SEVEN: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. Composed by Ryuichi Sakomoto and performed by Phoebe Stevens DISC EIGHT: Coins for the Eyes - Johnny Flynn & Robert Macfarlane BOOK CHOICE: Middlemarch by George Eliot LUXURY ITEM: A kayak CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. Composed by Ryuichi Sakomoto and performed by Phoebe StevensPresenter Lauren Laverne Producer Paula McGinley

Great Lives
Harry Enfield on Gerard Hoffnung

Great Lives

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2024 27:56


Gerard Hoffnung's life was short. He died in 1959 at the age of 34, but this cartoonist, musician, broadcaster and raconteur achieved a lot in that time. Born in Berlin, he lived most of his life in London. His charming cartoons which often gently poked fun at musicians and conductors were printed in magazines and books. His wife Annetta said he was always on-show and even a trip to the bank could turn into an uproarious occasion. Having caught the attention of the BBC he recorded a series of interviews with Charles Richardson, and his delivery of 'The Bricklayer's Lament' to the Oxford Union in 1958 is considered a triumph of comedic story-telling. The Hoffnung concerts which combined music and comedy sold out quicker than Liberace.Harry Enfield discovered Hoffnung when he was looking through the records in his local library. He knows it's boring for comedians to talk about timing but Hoffnung's was brilliant, and he finds it annoying that comedy wasn't even his main job. Harry got to know the family later on and his impersonation of Gerard became the inspiration for his own character 'Sir Henry'. Harry's joined in the studio by Gerard and Annetta's children, Emily and Benedict Hoffnung.Future episodes in this series include Alice Roberts on Emma, Queen of England, Journalist Steve Richards on Bruce Forsyth and Baronness Ros Altman on Antoni Gaudi.Presenter: Matthew Parris Producer: Toby Field for BBC Studios Audio

History Extra podcast
Plague, leprosy & murder: unlocking the secrets of medieval bones

History Extra podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 39:52


What secrets can medieval human remains unlock? With exciting new developments in the science of palaeopathology, researchers are able to glean much more from human bones than ever before. Speaking to David Musgrove, Professor Alice Roberts explores what the study of these bones can tell us about disease and violence in medieval Britain – considering how learning about historical diseases, like the Black Death and leprosy, can help us to understand and tackle modern diseases too. (Ad) Alice Roberts is the author of Crypt: Life, death and disease in the Middle Ages (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Buy it now from Waterstones: https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fcrypt%2Falice-roberts%2F9781398519237 The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

My Time Capsule
Ep. 361 - Professor Alice Roberts

My Time Capsule

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2024 56:23


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 .Follow Alice Roberts on Twitter @theAliceRoberts and Instagram @prof_alice_roberts . Follow My Time Capsule on Twitter, Instagram & Facebook: @MyTCpod .Follow Michael Fenton Stevens on Twitter: @fentonstevens and Instagram @mikefentonstevens .Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .Music by Pass The Peas Music .Artwork by matthewboxall.com .This podcast is proud to be associated with the charity Viva! Providing theatrical opportunities for hundreds of young people . Get bonus episodes and ad-free listening by becoming a team member with Acast+! Your support will help us to keep making My Time Capsule. Join our team now! https://plus.acast.com/s/mytimecapsule. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast
What do BONES tell us about past humanity with ALICE ROBERTS

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2024 70:02


Today Tony catches up with Alice Roberts to talk about her new book ‘Crypt' and what developments in the extraction of ancient DNA from bones can tell us about the humans they once belonged to. They cover the syphilitic anchoress of All Saints Church, Fishergate, York; new findings about the Black Death and the bones in the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Braemore, Hampshire; damage to the bones of the Mary Rose crew; 'the cockle amongst the wheat' and new finds relating to the St Brice's Day Massacre via isotopic analysis of human bones at St John's College, Oxford as well as revisiting their Time Team days. ‘We experience the world through our bodies, and our lives are written into those bodies and into our bones. And this is what the skeletons of the dead say to us when we find them: listen to us, we have stories to tell.' (‘Crypt' 2024, Alice Roberts)Hosted by Sir Tony RobinsonX | IGWithProfessor Alice Roberts Biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster. Alice's new book ‘Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond' is available from the 29th Feb, 2024. X | IG Credits: Series Producer: Melissa FitzGerald X @melissafitzg Executive Producer: Dominic de Terville Cover Art: The Brightside A Zinc Media Group production X @cunningcastpod Instagram @cunningcastpod If you enjoyed my podcast, please follow the show and leave us a rating or review. Thank you, Love Tony x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

the happy garden podcast
Professor Alice Roberts talks garden archeology finds

the happy garden podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2024 72:58


Professor Alice Roberts chats to Mollie about archaeology found in the gardens of the UK and how her garden is her happy place. We hear from listener Rupert who grows Godfrey garlic, a true yet huge variety, he has tips for planting too. Darren answers an interesting question about a neighbour dispute over ivy, there are money saving tips, jobs for the week ahead... and as always, plenty of laughs throughout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Milk Bar
Jason Forrest in The Milk Bar - Episode 762

The Milk Bar

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2024 32:21


Recorded for release W/C 29th Jan 24 This week Tony Blackburn tells us how to be Gas Safe, Kristian Lavercombe chats about being Riff Raff in the Rock Horror Show, James Mateo-Salt shares new of Bonnie and Clyde and we char with Professor Alice Roberts about her Book tour with her latest look into the past 'Crypt'

Sunday
Does religion do more harm than good?

Sunday

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 43:03


Researchers at the University of Birmingham have conducted a wide-ranging survey on perceptions of religion and science, which suggests that half the UK population believes that religion does more harm than good. 50% of respondents said religion 'has more negative societal consequences than positive', 30% said it 'has more positive societal consequences' and 20% didn't know. We discuss the findings and weigh up the religious ‘balance sheet' with Professor Alice Roberts, anatomist, broadcaster and Vice President of Humanists UK; and Dr Musharraf Hussain, Imam, scientist and charity worker in Nottingham.Also in the programme:This week saw the UK cinema release of ‘One Life' – a film about the British man Nicholas Winton who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued 669 mostly Jewish Czechoslovakian children from the Nazis. One of those children, Milena Grenfell-Baines, tells her story.The Church of Scotland is on a five-year mission to close places of worship made unviable by a lack of ministers, falling income and dwindling congregations. Reporter Moira Hickey visits Birnie Kirk, near Elgin in Moray, which recently held its last service after nearly 900 uninterrupted years of Christian worship. Producers: Dan Tierney and Catherine Murray Production co-ordinator: David Baguley Editor: Helen Grady

Health Check
Gene editing treatment approved for sickle cell

Health Check

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2023 26:29


The UK has become the first country in the world to approve a gene editing treatment for people with the genetic conditions sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia. The news has been hailed as revolutionary, unthinkable just a decade ago. But will the new treatment provide a realistic option for the millions of people living with these haemoglobin disorders worldwide? BBC health reporter Philippa Roxby joins Claudia to look at the latest. She also brings new evidence from Australia on the health benefits of delayed cord clamping to new born premature babies. And a study drawing attention to the impact of surfing on surfers' mental health. Could it add billions of dollars to the world economy? Losing a family member is a difficult experience for everyone but for people who no longer have a connection to the person who has died, it can cause a mixture of grief, sadness, guilt, or relief. Claudia talks to broadcaster and author, Professor Alice Roberts, about her experience of losing her mother after being estranged for 5 years. In the week that the World Health Organisation announced a new focus on the health impacts of loneliness, we noticed a familiar comparison in the headlines; that the health risks from being lonely are equivalent to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. But what does that really mean? Claudia asks Professor Andrea Wigfield, Director of Centre for Loneliness Studies in the UK. Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Clare Salisbury Assistant Producer: Jonathan Blackwell

All in the Mind
Grieving when estranged, musical hallucinations and the benefits of snoozing your alarm

All in the Mind

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 28:02


Losing a parent is extremely difficult, but for adult children who are estranged, this loss can create a mixture of grief, sadness, guilt or relief. Claudia Hammond talks to broadcaster and author, Professor Alice Roberts, about her experience of losing her mother after being estranged for 5 years. A group of estranged adult children were interviewed to learn more about these feelings and how they've dealt with them. Claudia discusses the findings with Professor Karl Pillemer, sociologist at Cornell University and author of ‘Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them'. Hearing music when nothing is playing is more common than you might think. For people with hearing loss, many ‘hear' music as if it real. From choral versions of ‘Ferry across the Mersey' to random notes on an organ, listeners Peter and Elizabeth share what it is like living with a constant juke box in their heads. Claudia chats about this phenomenon with Professor of cognitive neurology at Newcastle University, Tim Griffiths, and learns what might be happening in the brain to cause it. Peter Olusoga, senior lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University, joins Claudia in the studio to discuss how zoom backgrounds influence first impressions, the benefits of micro-breaks and when snoozing your alarm might be good for you... Presenter: Claudia Hammond Producer: Julia Ravey Studio Manager: Tim Heffer Production Coordinator: Siobhan Maguire Editor: Holly Squire

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Episode 108: Alice Roberts

Spinning Plates with Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2023 81:51


Professor Alice Roberts is a TV presenter and biological anthropologist - in her own words, she looks at old bones and tries to construct the person's history from their skeleton, and she loves the link betwwen the living and the dead.Her pink hair hints at her less traditional and more playful side, also illustrated by the amazing story that as a junior doctor she did some of her paediatric ward rounds on rollerblades, much to the children's joy! Alice was offered her first solo TV series just before she had her first baby. She presumed it was bad timing but to her surprise the executive producer suggested she take her her newborn baby with her on the filming, which she did successfully with the help of her husband who came along too.Alice has two children, now aged 10 and 13. She is vice president of Humanists UK. And she speaks out against faith schools, saying how children have a right not to have religion forced on them.Spinning Plates is presented by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, produced by Claire Jones and post-production by Richard Jones Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New Scientist Weekly
CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road

New Scientist Weekly

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2023 19:55


Scientist and broadcaster Alice Roberts has written her first children's book. The fictional tale follows prehistoric girl Tuuli, and captures the story of her encounter with a strange boy who leads her on a great adventure.Inspired by her own experiences trekking through the arctic, the book imagines what life would've been like for humans of the time, how they might've interacted with neanderthals and grapples with questions like: how were the first wolves domesticated?In this episode of CultureLab, New Scientist's comment and culture editor Alison Flood, and her 10-year-old daughter Jenny, ask Alice about the inspiration for the book and the science behind it.To read about subjects like this and much more, visit newscientist.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Saturday Live
Alice Roberts, Chris Howard, The Ayoub Sisters, Elizabeth Day

Saturday Live

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2023 58:48


Broadcaster and biological anthropologist Alice Roberts reveals the secret behind the UK's fascination with castles. Chris Howard, one of the creators of David Attenborough's Wild Isles, discusses the trials and tribulations of filming the elusive beaver. Scottish-Egyptian musicians The Ayoub Sisters perform their revival of an old Arabic folk song; live in the studio. Author and Broadcaster Elizabeth Day shares her Inheritance Tracks. Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Peter Curran Producer: Ben Mitchell

Better Known
Naoise Mac Sweeney

Better Known

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2023 30:03


Naoíse Mac Sweeney discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Naoíse Mac Sweeney is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Vienna. She previously held posts at Cambridge and Leicester Universities, and has won numerous academic awards for her work on classical antiquity and myths both in the UK and the EU. Her previous book was shortlisted for major awards, and she has appeared on Thinking Allowed on BBC Radio 4 and was a reporter on BBC4's Digging for Britain TV series with Alice Roberts. Her new book is The West: A New History of an Old Idea, which is available at https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/285724/naoise-mac-sweeney. Al-Kindi https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/al-kind/ Tullia D'Aragona https://projectvox.org/tullia-daragona-c-1505-1556/ Phyllis Wheatley https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-phillis-wheatley-was-recovered-through-history Mary Fisher https://www.friendsjournal.org/mary-fisher/ Juan Latino https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/latino-juan-c-1518-c-1594/ Hans Joachim Winkelmann https://www.theflorentine.net/2015/06/25/johann-joachim-winckelmann/ This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Documentales Sonoros
Maldiciones apocalípticas: La caída del Imperio Romano · Los Sajones y los Vikingos

Documentales Sonoros

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2022 86:25


La profesora Alice Roberts explora los desastrosos últimos días del Imperio romano y el vacío de poder que siguió a su colapso, cuyos efectos se dejaron sentir incluso más allá de sus dominios.Durante tres siglos, tras el colapso de Roma, sajones y vikingos arrasaron Europa, pero luego estas sociedades paganas parece que desaparecieron. ¿Por qué?

Documentales Sonoros
Maldiciones apocalípticas: El surgimiento de la Civilización en la Edad del Bronce · El ascenso del Imperio Romano

Documentales Sonoros

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2022 85:14


La profesora Alice Roberts analiza el ascenso de la civilización humana desde el año 6100 a. C. hasta el final de la Edad del Bronce.La profesora Alice Roberts analiza el éxito del Imperio romano, una de las grandes civilizaciones de la Historia. Varios expertos examinan campos de batalla recién hallados en Gran Bretaña y España.

KMOJCast
12/2/2022- Alice Roberts-Davis Commissioner of the MN Department of Administration

KMOJCast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2022 8:30


Alice Roberts-Davis serves as the Commissioner of the MN Department of Administration. Alice is focused on her commitment to making Minnesota a more equitable and inclusive state.

History Extra podcast
History & science: the big questions

History Extra podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2022 26:33


What can modern scientists learn from historians? Dr Lindsey Fitzharris, Professor Sasha Hadley, Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Professor Alice Roberts explore the often surprising connections between the two disciplines in a panel discussion chaired by Professor Alice Roberts and recorded live at the Royal Society, in association with the Wolfson History Prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RHLSTP with Richard Herring
RHLSTP Book Club 15 - Alice Roberts

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2022 48:25


RHLSTP Book Club 15 - Buried - A return to RHLSTP for the brilliant broadcaster, archaeologist and anatomist Professor Alice Roberts. We chat about her new book Buried and the previous book in the series Ancestors and the amazing science that allows us to piece together forgotten lives from bones, grave goods, language and DNA. Also why Trigger warnings aren't a big deal and TRIGGER WARNING some chat about baby skeletons, what's going on with headless corpses, why did a Roman burial have a big pipe coming out of it, writing stuff that you don't know how to pronounce and then having to do the audiobook and was the Venerable Bede full of shit? A fascinating chat and another great book.Buy the book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Buried-Alternative-History-Millennium-Britain/dp/B09PHPTFQJSUPPORT THE SHOW!Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE See details of the RHLSTP TOUR DATES See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp.

Whistle While You Work
#52 Not So Happy Endings

Whistle While You Work

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2022 51:43


This episode was either going to be about holidays or funerals.We're not shying away from difficult topics on this season of the podcast.We want to talk about what is front and centre - things that bring joy but also things that cause us pain, even if only temporarily, and how we deal with them.So with the recent loss of Emma's cat Edna, who turned up this week in a 'shake n vac' style tube (beautiful), and Sheryl's funeral-arranging skills being tested yet again with a family funeral to attend the next day, it seemed befitting to talk about loss and endings.If you're going through a loss of any kind - change in job, loss of your sense of identity, the ending of a relationship - you might find you identify with some of today's conversations and find it a source of comfort.Please do reach out if we can help you in any way, although we can't promise we'll organise a funer for you.The books we mention in today's podcast are:The Book About Getting Older by Dr Lucy PollockAncestors by Alice Roberts  https://amzn.to/3txvli8

How To Academy
Alice Roberts - Buried

How To Academy

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2022 62:48


Alice Roberts trained as a physician, and now employs her scientific knowledge to uncover new evidence about the history of Britain, combining scientific and historical insights to determine who we are and where we came from. She joins us to shed fresh light on how we lived in the so-called Dark Ages by examining the stories of the dead. What did people think about mortality? How did they feel about loss? What did they believe came after death? Find out in this in-depth exploration of Buried, her new history of Britain in the first millenium. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gone Medieval
Buried Secrets with Alice Roberts

Gone Medieval

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2022 46:37 Very Popular


What do human remains - and the objects buried with them - tell us about people's lives in Britain in the first millennium, what they thought about mortality, how they felt about loss, and what they believed came next?The anthropologist and author Professor Alice Roberts has been exploring the ways in which Ancient Britons bade farewell to their dead, examining sites of Roman cremations and graveside feasts, richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves and the first Christian burial grounds in Wales.In this episode Cat chats to Prof. Roberts about how combining archaeological finds with cutting-edge DNA research and written history sheds fresh light on how the dead lived.For more Gone Medieval content, subscribe to our Medieval Mondays newsletter here. If you'd like to learn even more, we have hundreds of history documentaries, ad free podcasts and audiobooks at History Hit - subscribe today! To download, go to Android or Apple store.Join the History Hit Book Club in time for the June and July read of Charles Spencer's, The White Ship. Become part of a community of readers who are passionate about history and its thrilling lessons. Members read a new book every 2 months, and get a £5 Amazon voucher towards the cost of the book, as well as exclusive access to an online Q&A between History Hit presenters and the author in the second month. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

History Extra podcast
Alice Roberts on unearthing the Romans, Vikings & Anglo-Saxons

History Extra podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2022 43:51 Very Popular


Professor Alice Roberts explores how cutting-edge developments in archaeology and genetic science can broaden our understanding of what happened in Britain between the first and tenth centuries AD. Through exploring the funerary sites of Romans, Vikings and Anglo-Saxons, she explains to Emily Briffett what we can learn about life and death at this time. (Ad) Alice Roberts is the author of Buried: An Alternative History of the First Millennium in Britain (Simon & Schuster, 2022). Buy it now from Waterstones:https://go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Fburied%2Falice-roberts%2F9781398510036 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

NTVRadyo
Köşedeki Kitapçı - Günün kitapları

NTVRadyo

Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2022 5:32


#KöşedekiKitapçı'da bugün

Life and Language
Alice Roberts - Stories of Humanity

Life and Language

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2022 68:21


Starting from Ancestors, the latest book by Alice Roberts, we chat about storytelling and the excitement of embarking on science projects. We hear about some of the protagonists in Ancestors, including stories around gender and the role of women in stories and in science. Using her experience as an anatomist, Alice tells stories of human and bodily experience. She reminds us: “The body doesn't make sense without the environment around it”. You will hear an extract from Ancestors that illustrates this point vividly. The stories that Alice tells show how the past is here in the present. One of the examples we discuss is the histories of diseases and what we know about viruses. In very practical terms, Alice shares some of her own experience of working with words, how teaching has affected her TV work, and what it means to write for children. She explains her specific approach to producing documentaries, and how conversation is a way of learning: stories are created through conversations. We chat about different types of evidence and how there is a place for fiction, too, as an important source of historical knowledge. I ask Alice about her views on the future of universities – and you will also get a bit of a preview of one of Alice's next books! Alice Roberts is an academic, writer and broadcaster. She's written numerous popular science books. She was the first recipient of the Royal Society's David Attenborough award for Public Engagement in 2020. She is professor of Public engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaela-mahlberg/message

Standing with Stones
INTERVIEW: Alice Roberts | Ancestors, Time Team, Science and Archaeology

Standing with Stones

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2021 44:38


We're very proud to bring you our interview with Professor Alice Roberts - anatomist and biological anthropologist, author and broadcaster and Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. Alice will need no introduction for many of you, but to understand why we were so thrilled that she agreed to be on the show, as per Rupert's intro: Before becoming a writer and presenter, Alice's career began as a medical doctor, she went on to become a university lecturer, teaching human anatomy, developing a particular expertise, and doing a PhD in paleopathology (the study of disease in ancient human remains). Through a circuitous route, this led to her working as a bone specialist with the renowned archaeology series Time Team and then on to presenting SEVERAL OF her own land mark television series. She has won numerous awards, perhaps most notably being the first recipient of the Royal Society David Attenborough Award in 2020. Her books are always a joy to read and her latest title, Ancestors, The Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials is so relevant to everything the Prehistory Guys are about, that it seemed the perfect time to get her on to talk about that, along with her thoughts about many other aspects of her work. We hope you enjoy our chat as much as we did…  

The Bakery Bears Radio Show
Episode 47 ‘The Great Pyramids - New Evidence!‘

The Bakery Bears Radio Show

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2021 42:11


Welcome to the 'Bakery Bears Radio Show' Episode 47 We are BACK with a brand new episode of the Radio Show. In todays show we through out our planned episode, which will come later this year and we head back to Egypt! Over the course of the Radio Show we have discussed Egypt a number of times but today we bring you new evidence. So compelling it has captivated both Kay & Dan. Join Kay & Dan as they: Discuss with you the film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMAtkjy_YK4  Along the way Day mentions: The Story of Egypt by Joann Fletcher https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26889785-the-story-of-egypt The Rise & Fall of Ancient Egypt https://www.goodreads.com/en/ The Celts by Alice Roberts https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26866488-the-celts You can find past episodes of the Radio Show here: On Podbean : https://bakerybearsradioshow.podbean.com On Apple Podcasts : https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-bakery-bears-radio-show/id1474815454 Follow the Bakery Bears on Twitter https://twitter.com/bakerybears Follow the Bakery Bears on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bakerybears/

The British Museum Membercast
056 Ancestors with Professor Alice Roberts

The British Museum Membercast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2021 34:10


In this episode, Iszi speaks to Professor Alice Roberts, author of 'Ancestors' to discover what burial sites can tell us about Britain's prehistory. The British Museum Membercast is a monthly podcast made available to ‘all studious and curious persons'. Comedian, podcaster and super-fan Iszi Lawrence (The Z List Dead List) presents snippets from exclusive Members' lectures at the Museum, artfully woven together with interviews and her own musings. Please share your comments and feedback about the podcast! You can talk to us on Twitter @britishmuseum using the hashtag #membercast or email friends@britishmuseum.org

How To Academy
Bonus Episode: With Reason - Learning from our Ancestors, with Alice Roberts

How To Academy

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2021 49:35


In this special bonus episode by our friends at New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association, Professor Alice Roberts takes us through important archaeological discoveries to help us better understand life in Britain today. About With Reason: From New Humanist magazine and the Rationalist Association, With Reason is a podcast offering intelligent thinking for turbulent times. Interviews with thinkers who speak to our age – on subjects including religion, race, politics, sex, tech, work and much more. Find it on Apple, Spotify, Google, or their website.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Reason
Learning from our ancestors, with Alice Roberts

With Reason

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 21, 2021 46:20


Alice Roberts, one of the UK's leading public scientists, talks to Samira Shackle about what we can learn from the burial sites of the earliest Britons, as explored in her new book ‘Ancestors'. What does our prehistory – cannibalism and all - tell us about who we are? How does the way we mark death illuminate our perspective on life? And how are genetics and archaeology shaping each other today? Plus, Alice tells Samira how she came to be a humanist, and discusses the value of storytelling and science communication in our pandemic age, and beyond.Podcast listeners can get a year's subscription to New Humanist magazine for just £13.50. Head to newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe and enter the code WITHREASON Reading list: Alice Roberts, ‘Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials' (2021)Alice Roberts and Andrew Copson, ‘The Little Book of Humanism: Universal Lessons on Finding Purpose, Meaning and Joy' (2020)David Reich ‘Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human' (2018)Peter Forbes ‘What Ancient DNA says about us', New Humanist magazine (2018)‘Digging for Britain' presented by Alice Roberts Alice Roberts is President of Humanists UKHosts: Samira Shackle and Niki Seth-SmithExecutive producer: Alice BlochSound engineer: David CracklesMusic: DanosongsImage: Photo by Dave Stevens, artwork by Ed Dingli

I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan
EP1: Professor and presenter Alice Roberts on ancestors and pre-history

I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2021 37:49


Peter's first guest on I've Been Thinking is Professor Alice Roberts. Alice is a biological anthropologist, biologist, presenter and author. In this episode we look into the unbelievable amount of information that can be gleamed from bones, why the lives of ordinary citizens as well as those more famous figures in history are just as important and examining genes, we can trace human migration across the globe. Alice's latest book, Ancestors is available now, and she can be found at www.alice-roberts.co.uk on via @theAliceRoberts on Twitter. Peter can be found on Twitter @peterfrankopan Subscribe and follow the podcast, and please rate and review as this allows other to discover the podcast. Episode 2 of I've Been Thinking is with former head of the FBI, James Comey. Produced, edited and mixed by @producerneil

Standing with Stones
PODCAST #41 | Waun Mawn & Stonehenge

Standing with Stones

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2021 47:52


12th feb 2021 BBc broadcast a programme hosted by Professor Alice Roberts called 'Stonehenge, the Lost Circle Revealed'. Both leading up to and afterwards, there was a flurry of headlines in the press ranging from the reasonably restrained to the outright sensational. To cut to the chase, the end result has been - to the dismay of many in the archaeological community and both Rupert and I - the the perception has been left with the general public that Stonehenge had a previous existence in the south Wales hills before it was transported wholesale to what is now Wiltshire. We followed up that broadcast with a short off-the-cuff show of our own on YouTube that attempted to redress some of the (what we regarded as) misleading elements of that programme. In some eyes, this was interpreted as an attack on the lead archaeologist featured in the BBC show, namely Prof Mike Parker Pearson. It was not. What MPP has done here is amazing and we hope by the time we've got to the end of this section in the podcast, you'll get a sense of the high regard we've got for him. What we were trying to do however is point out that there was so much more nuance to the finds that have been made and the results that have been extracted. Moreover that there are other voices in the field that were ignored by the BBC and that all is not as simple as made out. All that said - the story is amazing, the questions it poses are mind bending and the picture of people in the late Neolithic and what they were up to remains just as enigmatic if not more so than before the gloss of certainty that was painted over this whole question of the origins of the bluestones of Stonehenge by the BBC programme. We just want to make it real again. Strip it back to the actual evidence and leave you - we hope - much more excited by just how much more complex this story is than the impression left by the BBC in this case. As ever - even with the detail we go into here - we've barely scratched the surface. This could have been a very long podcast indeed. However, let us know if you think we should do more on this! Help support us and join our Patreon community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.