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Professor Alice Roberts, scientist and broadcaster

Professor Alice Roberts, scientist and broadcaster, shares the eight tracks, book and luxury item she would take with her if cast away to a desert island. With Lauren Laverne.

Professor Alice Roberts is one of the most popular science communicators in Britain today. As the presenter of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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 (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 1 Stay Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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 Stevens

Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley

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37 minutes

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Fri 29 Mar 2024 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Pixies

    Monkey Gone to Heaven

    • Doolittle.
    • 4AD.
    • 7.

  • The Sisters of Mercy

    Temple of Love

    • Some Girls Wander by Mistake.
    • WM UK.
    • 20.

  • Austin Wintory

    Apotheosis

    • Journey (Original Video Game Soundtrack).
    • Sony Classical.
    • 17.

  • The Smashing Pumpkins

    Cherub Rock

    • Siamese Dream (Deluxe Edition).
    • Virgin Records.
    • 1.

  • Live Lounge Allstars

    Times Like These (Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 1 Stay Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Live Lounge)

    • Columbia.

  • System of a Down

    Sugar

    • System Of A Down.
    • American.
    • 3.

  • Phoebe Stevens

    Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

  • Johnny Flynn & Robert MacFarlane

    Coins for the Eyes

    • The Moon Also Rises.
    • Transgressive Records.
    • 5.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 24 Mar 2024 11:15
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Fri 29 Mar 2024 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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