Alice Roberts

Alice May Roberts MB BCh BSc ILTM PhD (born 1973) is a clinical anatomist and osteoarchaeologist teaching at the University of Bristol [ [http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Anatomy/about/staff/roberts.htm Dr Alice Roberts staff page at the University of Bristol] ] .

Dr Roberts is best known to the public for her appearances as an expert contributor on human anatomy to various television programmes, including "Time Team", and its spin-off show "Extreme Archaeology"; BBC 2's "Coast"; and is now the creator, writer and presenter of BBC 2's "".

TV career

Dr Roberts first appeared on television in the "Time Team Live" 2001 episode [ [http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/archive/timeteamlive2001/index.html Time Team Live 2001] ] , working on Anglo-Saxon burials in Hampshire. She has since served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series "Extreme Archaeology". In August 2006, the Time Team Special episode "Big Royal Dig" investigated the archaeology of Britain's royal palaces, and Dr Roberts was one of the main presenters for this programme.

She is also one of the presenters of BBC geographical and environmental series "Coast" [http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/experts/ Coast – BBC website] ] , presenting stories about UK prehistory and science. Guardian journalist Oliver Burkeman described her as "swoon-inducing" in the paper in December 2006. [ [http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1969149,00.html Oliver Burkeman, Guardian TV reviews, 11 December 2006] ]

Dr Roberts has written and presented a new BBC2 series on anatomy and health entitled "", which screened from January 2007. According to an interview with the Independent on Sunday, she is currently planning a series about human evolution.

Personal life

Dr Roberts lives in Bristol with her partner, who is a field archaeologist, and they own a border terrier called Bob. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/coast/experts/ BBC Coast – Bio's of Experts] ]

Her trademark dyed red hair (its precise shade varies at different times from a comparatively subtle brown with mild copper tint to bright orange) has often been commented on by viewers. [http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/biog_alice.html Channel 4 – Time Team biography] ] She is also an artist and enjoys surfing and pub quizzes. She owns a lime green Volkswagen Type 2 (T3) Syncro (four wheel drive) van which has appeared in some episodes of Coast. She bought the van from Mick Aston, Time Team's lead archaeologist. Current research interests include joint disease in ancient human remains and in ape skeletons. She is an organiser of the Cheltenham Festival of Science and school outreach programmes within the University of Bristol's Medical Sciences division. [ [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/fmvs/ University of Bristol Medical & Veterinary Sciences] ] In March 2007, she hosted the University of Bristol Medical School's charity dance show 'Clicendales 2007', which raised over £5000 for the charity CLIC Sargent. [ [http://www.galenicals.org.uk/social/photo_albums/clicendales2007.php 'Clicendales 2007' – University of Bristol] ]

ee also

*"Time Team"
*Bioarchaeology
*"Coast" (TV series)

References

elected publications

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* cite book
last = Robson Brown KA, Roberts AM
title = Gaia: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology
origyear = 2006
year = 2006
publisher = BAR
* cite book
last = Roberts | first = Alice May
title = Specificity of diagnosis in palaeopathology; Proceedings of the 6th BABAO annual conference
year = 2006
publisher = BAR
* cite book
last = Roberts | first = Alice May
title = A case of bilateral scapholunate advanced collapse in a Romano-British skeleton from Ancaster
year = 2006
coauthors = Robson-Brown K, Musgrave JH, Leslie I
publisher = International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 16, 3: 208-220

External links

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* [http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Anatomy/about.htm University of Bristol, Department of Anatomy]
* [http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/biog_alice.html Channel 4 – Time Team biography]
* [http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/E/extremearchaeology/team_alice.html Channel 4 – Extreme Archaeology biography]
* [http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk/science/straight-talking/interviews/alice_roberts_anatomy_bones_television Interview with Alice Roberts] for the [http://www.null-hypothesis.co.uk Journal of Unlikely Science]