Me too, and I'm pleased to see that she seems to have moved on from the dyed red hair "rock chick" look (which i wasn't a fan of) to something more natural, albeit like many women, some dye is involved! Please age gracefully, Alice.
Alice is a wonderful person . When my dad died in Jan 21 she sent me a message on twitter. She is s kind lovely woman. Has a fabulous family too. Thank Alice. Chris
If Professor Roberts had taught me history when I was at school I'm sure my exam results would have been so much better! She is so inspiring and loves her topic so much, it really comes across when she talks about it.
Thank you for uploading this BBC interview.I have had the singular pleasure of meeting a younger Alice Roberts some years ago now, and she was both delightful to speak with and fascinating to listen to. As Alice clearly indicates in this interview, the potentials now offered by ADNA genetic sequencing will expand our understanding of ancient societies exponentially and will generate completely new directions of research. Thank you once again - much appreciated :)
A truly gifted person. And thankfully she is a Humanist. I have read several of her books. I.loved Tamed - wonderfully informative about species we think we all know well.
fabulous presenter. She's highly intelligent (obviously!) and is a great communicator - by which I mean she actually listens to what people are saying to her before she responds. How rare is that!!!
Was introduced to her first with her crimson red hair as part of the digs of Time Team. She was knowledgeable and articulate then and has continued to be so over the years. I always find time every so often to revisit both Time Team and Alice’s other endeavours. Keeps me sane in this mad mad world.
At 1:05, she mentions a massacre of Vikings in the 11th century. It is good to hear that the Brits achieved some success against the marauders. Where can I learn more about attacks on invading Norse?
Agreed. Im sick to death of this modern penchant to think the Vikings were cool and to be applauded. No, they were brutal invaders and conquerors who didn't really even leave much of benefit, unlike the Romans.
@@lyndoncmp5751 she said it was a massacre of Viking settlers. Peaceful farmers trying to earn a living off the land. Not people who were raping and pillaging.
Ok, I'm a retired archaeologist and historian but this shouldn't be news. What country wasn't brutal in the Middle Ages? And never mind the Middle Ages. In the UK, over 36% of all children under the age of 5 died annually in 1800. That was reduced to 20% in 1900. In the US, 1800's, annual child mortality of children amongst immigrants under 5 was 45%. Due to technology it's now 4%. In 1800, 50% of all people born died before the age of 19. We live in an age entirely disassociated from the reality of the past. Most people have no idea.
I wonder what historians of the future will think of us, still dealing with illness and war, I hope we get to resolve these problems and look back and think how backward we were😊
@@Andy-uw9cgI doubt very much Alice uses Botox. She's not a social media influencer or insecure celebrity. She's only in her 40s..there are naturally beautiful women over 30 you know? ;-)
And yet I notice her aging beyond 40. The start of jowls, body posture not always straight. She’s beautiful in all ways and just aging well knowing that eating a carnivore diet ensured the ancestors teeth were mostly free of cavities & rot in the mouth.
I'm so shocked. She left the Coast for Waterloo where they were apparently surprised at the horrid wounds suffered by swords! Now the"Middle Ages" get the shock horror vibe.
I just love the way she completely ignores his question about doing something nice @4:30, her passion is this... our grim grim history!! 😆 I can't help but love Alice, always have!
She has a very active and acquisitive mind. She is so well established as an archaeologist and presenter that you forget she originally qualified as a doctor, but since then she has built a fascinating synthesis of knowledge in a variety of disciplines. I wonder what she will move into next.
You think how much pain and suffering went into the ultimate emergence of our modern enlightened culture from the Middle Ages… and then you think how willing some people now are to throw away our culture and re-import the Middle Ages. It’s utterly, utterly tragic.😢 I think we might be heading for another Ethelred age, sadly.
Ethnically motivated violence against Vikings.... poor things. Maybe she's not heard of 1066 when a Norse army invaded England, killed the king and made everyone serfs.
I seen a RUclips podcast that demonstrated the use of a Dodecahedra to construct the plaited interweaving of Gold & Silver necklaces. Would this be its purpose?
@@langdalepaul you tell this to Ukrainians please. Or maybe that does not count? Russia and other totalitarian Systems have normalised Brutality in their sphere of influence so much that it quite apparently does not need to be taken into account. Keep looking away and find out how much longer your little world will be OK.
And in 14 hundred and 92, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. If anyone wonders how old Chris and Co. could have been so brutal to the indigenous peoples he came across in the New World, well, he grew up shortly after Black Plague ravaged Europe and life was short, cheap and brutal. He brought what he knew with him. Past is prologue.
Truly, there is nothing like cookie dough,...but it is too rich, too sweet, as we say. So it's a favourite only for those who really like it, here, and for you, who know it so well.😮🎉😂
She’s a creative person; if she likes to dye her hair then, great! I like her different looks 😁 More seriously though, Alice is a very engaging communicator of science, highly intelligent and has a very natural presentation that works perfectly in her programmes. She’s also really witty.
when i was a kid i used to think how lucky i was to be born in a time of modern technology, medical advancement and creature comforts, thats before i fully grasped the concept of nuclear weapons, war and human nature.
You ARE lucky. All the bad things (apart from nukes) existed long ago too.... at least now we HAVE modern medicine and technologies that (mainly) make life better....better by any measurable standard.
Alice - "we're not in the middle ages anymore" - you have to be joking. " Agree with our religion or you will be killed (beheaded)" - how medieval can you get ?
The presenters…….. they delivered 2 sentences between them. Why does it take two people to deliver two sentences? Sack one of them, save money - sorted. !
I bet they could still have a good log fire to keep warm, unlike today where thousands still die each year because of not being able to stay warm enough or sufficiently well fed, what a sad indictment on a supposed first-world country.
What - "She is currently the most famous archaeologist in the UK, as well as one of Britain's best-known broadcasters." - I've literally never heard of her, this a lying, fraudulent narrative.
I like all of the programmes she presents, she is so interesting, intelligent, stylish, beautiful, even her voice is music to the ear. Yes, I'm a fan.
Agree!
I concur
Yes!!
Me too, and I'm pleased to see that she seems to have moved on from the dyed red hair "rock chick" look (which i wasn't a fan of) to something more natural, albeit like many women, some dye is involved! Please age gracefully, Alice.
@@johnf991what does it matter?
Alice Roberts is a brilliant presenter and really brings history to life 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Alice is a wonderful person . When my dad died in Jan 21 she sent me a message on twitter. She is s kind lovely woman. Has a fabulous family too. Thank Alice.
Chris
He died of covid btw
@@chrisdorrell1 you know that thing isnt a word don't you
@@JackFrost008 died is not a word?
@@hottractor1999 obviously not what I meant.
That thing you called the corona virus is not a word.
Love her presentation on TV. So informative!
If Professor Roberts had taught me history when I was at school I'm sure my exam results would have been so much better! She is so inspiring and loves her topic so much, it really comes across when she talks about it.
If she’d taught me at school I’d have gone blind 😂
@@FrankieSIM76
Very good, I'm not sure everyone will have got it.
@@markbrett2969 YOU EXPLAIN THEN
I can feel the passion. Way to go Dr Roberts
Thank you for uploading this BBC interview.I have had the singular pleasure of meeting a younger Alice Roberts some years ago now, and she was both delightful to speak with and fascinating to listen to. As Alice clearly indicates in this interview, the potentials now offered by ADNA genetic sequencing will expand our understanding of ancient societies exponentially and will generate completely new directions of research.
Thank you once again - much appreciated :)
A truly gifted person. And thankfully she is a Humanist. I have read several of her books. I.loved Tamed - wonderfully informative about species we think we all know well.
Cheers Alice from California ! I loved everything you have done !
fabulous presenter. She's highly intelligent (obviously!) and is a great communicator - by which I mean she actually listens to what people are saying to her before she responds. How rare is that!!!
If the middle ages are brutal, what hope for us is there in old age?
We all die alone
Good one ❤
NONE at all, old boy...
@@bonscott6353my wife didn’t, she was surrounded by family, holding her hands ands and talking to her until the end.
Pathetic creature.
Fascinating. The best part is learning about the lives of common people. I wonder how we even made it as a species.
Our days are numbered, with all the Anti-vaccine folks and global warming and sea level rise the next mass extinction is only a blink in time away!
I fancy this lovely Dr. 💕
You're not alone . . .
It's Professor, and she's mine!
@@kevinroche3334 OK THEN
I remember Professor Roberts from Time Team!
SHE WAS ALWAYS THE STAR, EVEN WHEN VERY YOUNG
Professor Alice Roberts is truly an assess to the country.
Asset, perhaps?
@@karphin1hardly abscess?
that should be asset not assess havingalook :)
Yeah buddy she is an asset to your country but she is also a treasure to the whole world. From Aussie
Sigh, WHY hasn't Digging for Britain been available for YEARS on-line or in the USA?
Well I watch it in CANADA! Could it be your country’s genocidal war mongering?
ONLY YOU CAN FIND OUT WHY
Was introduced to her first with her crimson red hair as part of the digs of Time Team. She was knowledgeable and articulate then and has continued to be so over the years. I always find time every so often to revisit both Time Team and Alice’s other endeavours. Keeps me sane in this mad mad world.
At 1:05, she mentions a massacre of Vikings in the 11th century. It is good to hear that the Brits achieved some success against the marauders. Where can I learn more about attacks on invading Norse?
Agreed. Im sick to death of this modern penchant to think the Vikings were cool and to be applauded. No, they were brutal invaders and conquerors who didn't really even leave much of benefit, unlike the Romans.
You probably have Nordic blood yourself.
@@lyndoncmp5751 she said it was a massacre of Viking settlers. Peaceful farmers trying to earn a living off the land. Not people who were raping and pillaging.
@@lyndoncmp5751 Well yeah………but Vikings was a great TV show.
Alice Roberts is simply wonderful, on every level.
& yet here we are - millions and millions of us ............
Ok, I'm a retired archaeologist and historian but this shouldn't be news. What country wasn't brutal in the Middle Ages? And never mind the Middle Ages. In the UK, over 36% of all children under the age of 5 died annually in 1800. That was reduced to 20% in 1900. In the US, 1800's, annual child mortality of children amongst immigrants under 5 was 45%. Due to technology it's now 4%. In 1800, 50% of all people born died before the age of 19. We live in an age entirely disassociated from the reality of the past. Most people have no idea.
It isn't news. It is Breakfast Tv.
Human suffering should always be news. Until it’s gone.
Best history teacher on tv .
One of the best and certainly way better than Neil Oliver. Also love Julian Richards and Mary Beard.
How quickly time moves on, I can hardly believe Alice is 50.
IT'S JUST A NUMBER---SHE WILL ALWAYS BE YOUNG
@@MrDaiseymay In the picture you use, yes 🐽
Maravilhosa mulher. Continue assim. Tenho a esperança que inspire outros a se educarem. Ciência é tudo de bom.
Alice is looking rather lovely in this interview.
The Prof always looks lovely...
Creepy leave her alone.
@@wkt2506how on earth is that creepy?
She's a fine-looking woman. 👍
was thinking the same..@@tiddles9596
Alice Roberts is amazing and inspiring. Truly she is having an incredible human journey. 💫👏💫
Love doc's with Alice!
I just love Alice. ❤
Hobbes was right: life then was “nasty, brutish and short.” And I agree, interesting to learn about everyday life in medieval times.
he was talking about prehistory but was wrong it was quite healthy compared to medieval times. I think Rousseau put it better
Hobbes was talking about life without government.
@@jmarsh5485 He was talking about the 17th Century, namely the English Civil Wars in the 1640s when law and order broke down.
Brilliant woman and makes history interesting to average people
I wonder what historians of the future will think of us, still dealing with illness and war, I hope we get to resolve these problems and look back and think how backward we were😊
Yes I think it is so possible but the main obstacle is people think it's impossible!
These days are coming back .! 😊
Sooner than many believe😃
Uncontrolled mass immigration.
she's lovely,
How she keeps looking so young is amazing ! Whatever she's doing, she ought to bottle it and sell it, she'd make a fortune. Long live Alice eh.
It's called botox
@@Andy-uw9cgI doubt very much Alice uses Botox. She's not a social media influencer or insecure celebrity. She's only in her 40s..there are naturally beautiful women over 30 you know? ;-)
@marcchrys there's plenty of beautiful women over 40 , but a bit of botox keeps them looking fresh 👌 no harm in it I'm all for it . 😀
And yet I notice her aging beyond 40. The start of jowls, body posture not always straight. She’s beautiful in all ways and just aging well knowing that eating a carnivore diet ensured the ancestors teeth were mostly free of cavities & rot in the mouth.
Great presenter and so nice to see the pink hair dumped…she does not need that to make a statement
Go woke, go broke. And look like a crazy old hippy.
Errr, you beat me to it regarding the red/pink hair.👍
@@philgee7249 IT'LL REAPPEAR, SHE HAS ALWAYS CHANGED HER HAIR COLOUR.
Her hair, her choice.
I’ve got my copy of her new book crypt, sitting on my nightstand, waiting to be read. 👍👍👍
Have a good night sleep 😴 .
@@phillipcarter8045
Thanks 👍
Brutality and Suffering now, is if someone get's your pronoun or gender wrong.
I'm so shocked. She left the Coast for Waterloo where they were apparently surprised at the horrid wounds suffered by swords! Now the"Middle Ages" get the shock horror vibe.
Life was short and brutal
I just love the way she completely ignores his question about doing something nice @4:30, her passion is this... our grim grim history!! 😆 I can't help but love Alice, always have!
Dear, oh dear, part of the team now are we Alice?
I still remember Alice on Time Team, when she must've been just a teenager!! 😍
"Hate Speech" as a term is so 2020's.
There has and always will be violence in the world.
She has a very active and acquisitive mind. She is so well established as an archaeologist and presenter that you forget she originally qualified as a doctor, but since then she has built a fascinating synthesis of knowledge in a variety of disciplines. I wonder what she will move into next.
Alice is 'cool'. Had I have had a History teacher with her demeanor as kid, I might have become a professor myself !
We may not have the number of deaths from illness nowadays but there are still just as many, probably more, deaths from brutality.
No, I think you’re wrong. Percentage, not so many die these days
Her presentation speaks to the fact that people haven't really changed or evolved all that much over time...
Remember her on time team as a student.
She still looks like she did in Time Team. Different colour hair always suited her. Still stunning at 50...
The Roman dodecahedron is probably a dice for a game.
The dodecahedron is now known not to be Roman at all, but Celtic - even more interesting and even harder to find out what it is.
Alice, check out the Time Team dig at Sutton Hoo when it gets going in June. It would make a nice episode of Digging for Britain.
very interesting
Alice is just pure class. With whatever she does.
We are so much more civilied in the 20/21 st centuries.
WTF?
poor vikings, any one would think they came in peace, abit of wokery, thrown in
You think how much pain and suffering went into the ultimate emergence of our modern enlightened culture from the Middle Ages… and then you think how willing some people now are to throw away our culture and re-import the Middle Ages. It’s utterly, utterly tragic.😢 I think we might be heading for another Ethelred age, sadly.
Excellent observation 👍👍
@@mechpattIt is all because Europe's elite is now largely composed of a certain ethnicity you're not allowed to mention.
Loved her since she was first on time team with bright red hair. Well before her presenting days. She barely to go mention then.
Beauty & brains,what an intoxicating combination.
Just perfect lady natural intelligence and beauty
Im surprised no one is claiming compensation for the hurt caused in the middle ages.
I'm thinking of sueing the Vikings...!
Fascinating. How does this knowledge help us today? History that doesn't speak to the contemporary moment is only theoretical (and not practical).
The middle ages were tough but the people were happier than we are today.
the past was "brutal" but that doesn't mean we can't learn from it
A speech by a leader setting neighbour against neighbour because of migration? Hmmm. She did say the 10th Century didn’t she?
Woah, not migration! That's like calling the Blitzkrieg immigration!
The so-called St Brice's Day Massacre is a little more complicated than presented during that clip.
Hard to get much depth in a 5 minute segment. But you peaked my interest. Off to the web!
Alice is top eye candy too ❤
That's her entire story: see the other similar comments here.
RFK Jnr wants to go back to the Middle Ages! Don’t say you weren’t told.
We’re not in the Middle Ages any more… at the moment.
Ethnically motivated violence against Vikings.... poor things. Maybe she's not heard of 1066 when a Norse army invaded England, killed the king and made everyone serfs.
And screwed up the language with a huge infusion of French!!!
My great great grandfather was in the Romans, and they didn't know what the dodecahedron was for, either!
Not that i watch Breakfast T.V., but has Sally always been that up-front ?😍
cosmetic enhancement ?
Sprouted large boobs all of a sudden.
I seen a RUclips podcast that demonstrated the use of a Dodecahedra to construct the plaited interweaving of Gold & Silver necklaces. Would this be its purpose?
I dig her 😢
Clever boy.
I'd love to have a wife like Professor Alice Roberts❤
I'd settle.for any wife that was kind and loving.
She's a beauty and so brilliant❤
Alice is ok but I wasn't convinced about the Stonehenge episode she did with the guy came across as a bit of a charlatan.
Brutality was not only in England.
What a stunning and futile surprise from a mediocre academic.
so it turns out someone has figured out these dodecahedra - theyre for making gold jewellery, specifically gold braids
There are theories but they do not know for sure
@@Oxnaforda it was very well demonstrated how they are used with various sized dowels to braid gold for necklaces
@@gabecunha2411 that doesnt mean someone "figured it out", it's a theory, a good theory but it's not certain.
@@Oxnaforda perhaps if you'd seen it demonstrated you'd be convinced too - im pretty sure i saw here on youtube somewhere, if you care to probe
"We don't live in an age where there is brutality." What planet are these 3 on ? There is a reason why i would not watch breakfast TV even if i could.
I think the point is that we don’t live in an age where brutality is an unremarkable everyday thing.
@@langdalepaulQuite right but well beyond the intelligence of the poster. One only has to look at life expectancy to understand how bad it was.
You may not have the required skill (IQ) to understand, read @langdalepaul 's reply and attempt to learn.
@@langdalepaul you tell this to Ukrainians please. Or maybe that does not count? Russia and other totalitarian Systems have normalised Brutality in their sphere of influence so much that it quite apparently does not need to be taken into account. Keep looking away and find out how much longer your little world will be OK.
And in 14 hundred and 92, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. If anyone wonders how old Chris and Co. could have been so brutal to the indigenous peoples he came across in the New World, well, he grew up shortly after Black Plague ravaged Europe and life was short, cheap and brutal. He brought what he knew with him. Past is prologue.
I could watch Alice Read the telephone directory ❤
news reporters are so inept
Truly, there is nothing like cookie dough,...but it is too rich, too sweet, as we say.
So it's a favourite only for those who really like it, here, and for you, who know it so well.😮🎉😂
The Roman theuheteric theidrum has been finally figured out… I think, about 6 mths ago…
She’s a creative person; if she likes to dye her hair then, great! I like her different looks 😁 More seriously though, Alice is a very engaging communicator of science, highly intelligent and has a very natural presentation that works perfectly in her programmes. She’s also really witty.
when i was a kid i used to think how lucky i was to be born in a time of modern technology, medical advancement and creature comforts, thats before i fully grasped the concept of nuclear weapons, war and human nature.
You ARE lucky. All the bad things (apart from nukes) existed long ago too.... at least now we HAVE modern medicine and technologies that (mainly) make life better....better by any measurable standard.
Changes in his bines ? Holy tortured posh vowels !
Estuary accent - abominable!
Alice is the 'thinking mans crumpet' who thinks critically and is so enthusiastic about the natural world.
WHAT A GEM, ALICE IS. I DON'T THINK I'VE MISSED A SINGLE TV PROGRAMME OF HER'S, AND I HAVE MOST OF HER BOOKS. I HOPE TO SEE HER LIVE, ONE DAY.
It’s refreshing hearing her refer to it as the Black Death instead of the BBC’s preferred narrative as the plague 😂😂
My dad taught me not to speak with my hands. He said it wasn't English
Doesn’t matter. She speaks eloquently, interestingly and intelligently. A wonderful human being.
It matters. Don't talk with your hands.
@@peterallen2904 You have no idea whether she is a cat torturer or not. You don't know her so stop getting frisky. It's just your imagination
@@Whiskey0880I just gave you the finger. Does that count?
She is wearing well.
Alice - "we're not in the middle ages anymore" - you have to be joking. " Agree with our religion or you will be killed (beheaded)" - how medieval can you get ?
The presenters…….. they delivered 2 sentences between them. Why does it take two people to deliver two sentences? Sack one of them, save money - sorted. !
The dark ages was were indeed brutal
I bet they could still have a good log fire to keep warm, unlike today where thousands still die each year because of not being able to stay warm enough or sufficiently well fed, what a sad indictment on a supposed first-world country.
What - "She is currently the most famous archaeologist in the UK, as well as one of Britain's best-known broadcasters." - I've literally never heard of her, this a lying, fraudulent narrative.
Vikings were discriminated against in ye olde England 🏴. 😮
Unlike the brutality we have now. 🤣