Alice Roberts

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Alice May Roberts MB BCh BSc ILTM is a clinical anatomist and osteoarchaeologist teaching at the University of Bristol[1].

Dr Roberts is best known to the public for her appearances as an expert contributor on human anatomy to various television programs, 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 Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young.

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[edit] TV career

Dr Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode[2], 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[3], presenting stories about UK prehistory and science. Guardian journalist Oliver Burkeman described her as "swoon-inducing" in the paper in December 2006.[4]

Dr Roberts has written and presented a new BBC2 series on anatomy and health entitled Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young, which screened from January 2007. According to an interview with the Independent on Sunday, she is currently planning a series about human evolution.

[edit] Personal life

Dr Roberts lives in Bristol with her partner, who is a field archaeologist, and they own a border terrier called Bob. [3]

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.[5] 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 and she bought from Mick Aston,[5] 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.[6] 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. [7]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Dr Alice Roberts staff page at the University of Bristol
  2. ^ Time Team Live 2001
  3. ^ a b Coast – BBC website
  4. ^ Oliver Burkeman, Guardian TV reviews, 11 December 2006
  5. ^ a b Channel 4 – Time Team biography
  6. ^ University of Bristol Medical & Veterinary Sciences
  7. ^ 'Clicendales 2007' – University of Bristol

[edit] Selected publications

  • Alice Roberts. Don't Die Young: An Anatomist's Guide to Your Organs and Your Health. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC: London, 2007. ISBN 0747590257. 
  • Robson Brown KA, Roberts AM [2006] (2006). Gaia: Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference of the British Association of Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. BAR. 
  • Roberts, Alice May (2006). Specificity of diagnosis in palaeopathology; Proceedings of the 6th BABAO annual conference. BAR. 
  • Roberts, Alice May; Robson-Brown K, Musgrave JH, Leslie I (2006). A case of bilateral scapholunate advanced collapse in a Romano-British skeleton from Ancaster. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 16, 3: 208-220. 

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