ALICE Roberts is an academic, writer and broadcaster.

She is also interested in the structure of humans, how we function, and our place in the wider environment.

Alice, a medical doctor who went on to become a university lecturer teaching human anatomy to students and doctors, and did research into human origins and disease in ancient skeletons made her television debut back in 2001, as a human bone specialist on Channel 4’s Time Team.

She went on to present Coast on BBC2, and then to write and present a range of television series for BBC2, including The Incredible Human Journey, Origins of Us and Ice Age Giants, as well as several Horizon programmes. She’s presented five series of the popular Digging for Britain series, looking at archaeology in the UK. Alice has also written seven popular science books.

She said: “We’re all members of a young species. Wherever we’ve ended up, all over the world, we’re Africans under the skin. And uncovering that story, retracing the steps of our ancestors, has given me a profound sense of our common humanity: our shared past, and our shared future.”

Alice Roberts Digging into Britain’s past is at the Grand Opera House York, on Wednesday, January 23. For tickets phone 0844 871 3024 or go to www.atgtickets.com/york