Alice May Roberts FRSB (born 19 May 1973)[2] is an English academic, TV presenter and author.

[7][10][11] After graduating, Roberts worked as a junior doctor with the National Health Service in South Wales for 18 months.

In 1998, she left clinical medicine and worked as an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Bristol, becoming a lecturer there in 1999.

A clinical trial began in June 2009 involving about 100 patients with bipolar disorder in South Wales.

[29] A presenter of science and history television documentaries, Roberts was one of the regular co-presenters of the BBC geographical and environmental series Coast.

[30] Roberts first appeared on television in the Time Team Live 2001 episode,[31][32] working on Anglo-Saxon burials at Breamore, Hampshire.

She served as a bone specialist and general presenter in many episodes, including the spin-off series Extreme Archaeology.

[34] In September 2009, she co-presented (with Mark Hamilton) A Necessary Evil?, a one-hour documentary about the Burke and Hare murders.

[35] In August 2010, she presented a one-hour documentary on BBC Four, Wild Swimming, inspired by Roger Deakin's book Waterlog.

[37][38] Roberts explained, "We're taking a fresh approach by showing British archaeology as it's happening out in the field, from the excitement of artefacts as they come out of the ground, through to analysing them in the lab and working out what they tell us about human history.

She presented the series Origins of Us, which aired on BBC Two in October 2011, examining how the human body has adapted through seven million years of evolution.

[44] From 22 to 24 October 2012, she appeared, with co-presenter Dr George McGavin, in the BBC series Prehistoric Autopsy,[45] which discussed the remains of early hominins such as Neanderthals, Homo erectus and Australopithecus afarensis.

In August 2016, she presented the BBC Four documentary Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost in Time, which explored the Must Farm Bronze Age settlement in Cambridgeshire.

[74] Roberts was awarded British Humanist of the Year 2015, for work promoting the teaching of evolution in schools.

[81] She is a pescatarian,[82] "a confirmed atheist"[83] and former president of Humanists UK, beginning her three-and-a-half-year term in January 2019.

[85] Roberts enjoys watercolour painting, surfing, wild swimming, cycling, gardening and pub quizzes.

[39] In March 2024 Roberts was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where her musical choices included "Monkey Gone to Heaven" by the Pixies, "Temple of Love" by The Sisters of Mercy, and "Sugar" by System of a Down.