Alice Roberts
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Jackie Bowers, widowed for two years, recently moved five hundred miles to Ponderosa, a small town in Northern Arizona, where she purchased The Hilltop Inn, a Bed and Breakfast, a dream she has always had. When her washer dies, she goes to the local Laundromat Soap Suds. There she meets Brian Williams, a local contractor, who has come looking for his Gram. Jackie needs renovations done to the Inn and she calls Brian about doing the work. Little does...
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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The team is in the north of Britain where they uncover evidence of the first Roman siege in Britain, Scottish man-made islands, and a famous monastery.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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In this episode, we join a team as they undertake the largest maritime investigation since the Mary Rose and reveal the extraordinary story of HMS Invincible.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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In the second episode of the series, Dr. Alice Roberts travels back to the Viking Age in Britain and visits excavations that are revealing a different side to these seafaring pirates from Scandinavia. She looks for signs of the earliest Viking settlers in the Outer Hebrides, and in Orkney-where Viking dominance outlasted anywhere else in Britain-she visits the excavation of a Viking chief's citadel and finds evidence of their way-of-life. There's...
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Digging For Britain volume 4
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In the final episode of season two, Alice goes in search of our elusive Stone Age ancestors. Along the way, she visits the channel island of Jersey where she meets a team of archaeologists hoping to shed new light on the much-maligned Neanderthals. At a natural history museum, Alice comes face to face with the dark side of our Ice Age ancestors when she's met with evidence of cannibalism and the ritual use of human skulls.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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In the North, the remains of a Tudor house in Leicestershire were thought to be the childhood home of England's forgotten Queen, Lady Jane Grey. But when archaeologists excavate, they find more than they bargained for.
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Digging For Britain volume 3
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The Anglo-Saxons-they divided our land and heralded the arrival of the Dark Ages. But were they really just barbarians? Dr. Alice Roberts continues her journey through a year of archaeology, visiting the key sites that are throwing light on this most mysterious of periods. She visits the royal seat of power at Bamburgh, Northumbria and sees how the skeletons tell tales of violent death, but also of tenderness. There's a remarkable community project...
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Digging For Britain volume 3
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A team discovers clues to Scotland's first kingdoms, metal detectorists unearth a hoard of Viking treasure, and a new housing development reveals a graveyard of Iron Age warriors.
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Digging For Britain volume 4
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In this special episode, the team is on the hunt for archaeology from our more recent past as they search for artifacts from World War II. They join marine archaeologists in the Solent as they raise the once-in-a-lifetime find of a Fairey Barracuda dive-bomber.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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Dr. Alice Roberts explores the year's most exciting archaeological finds as the team unearths a mass grave, divers search the Thames for clues to a seventeenth-century tragedy, and a metal detectorist makes the find of a lifetime.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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In the first episode of season eight, we explore this year's finds in the West of Britain and a secret location in the Cotswolds, with all the hallmarks of high-status Anglo Saxon cemetery, gives up a very precious and fragile artifact.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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This first episode follows Dr. Alice Roberts and her team as they compare results from digs and investigations all over Britain. The results are astonishing-and sometimes disturbing. On this dig, her team uncovers the bodies of ninety-seven babies murdered by the Thames, a fabulous Roman coin hoard found in Somerset, and a man buried on a layer of dead animals.
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Digging For Britain volume 4
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A team of archaeologists and historical re-enactors attempt to re-stage a Roman Cavalry tournament-a spectacle that no one has seen for over 1,600 years-in the final episode of season six.
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Digging For Britain volume 3
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The team discovers the writing tablets, swords, and domestic items left behind by the Romans at Vindolanda during a time of British rebellion.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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In this episode, the team investigates Roman Britannia, where finds include the thickening mystery of ninety-seven baby skeletons found by the Thames, a newly-discovered town in rural Devon 's that turns history on its head, and a Roman cult figure buried for 1700 years beneath a fort.
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Digging For Britain volume 1
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In this episode, the crew is in the West of Britain and is joined by archaeologists in the lab to check out some new finds and figure out what they mean. These finds include the lost World War I training trenches on Salisbury Plain, Britain's first double henge-discovered just down the road from Stonehenge-where the evidence suggests our ancestors feasted and made sacred offerings as part of a visit to the ritualistic Stonehenge landscape. They also...
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Digging For Britain volume 3
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A team in Suffolk explores the incredible engineering skills of our ancient ancestors through a lost Stone Age monument while a World War I battlefield in France reveals some of the earliest and most disastrous tank battles in this episode.
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Digging For Britain volume 3
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Finds in this episode include new revelations about Britain's own Pompeii, the theater where Shakespeare premiered Romeo and Juliet, and evidence that leads to the location of the Battle of Barnet.
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Digging For Britain volume 2
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Dr. Alice Roberts continues her journey through archaeology with amazing finds from prehistory. Her journey takes her from Orkney to Devon, by land, sea, and air.
In Norfolk, flint tools unearthed this year push the earliest human occupation back by 200,000 years, to around a million years ago. While in Orkney, an early farm yields glimpses of our ancestors' earliest religious beliefs and customs-cattle skulls buried within building walls and tiny...