Professor Alice Roberts on the brutality of the Middle Ages in Britain (UK) 20/Feb/2024 

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

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.

Alice Roberts is a brilliant presenter and really brings history to life 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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.

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.

Love her presentation on TV. So informative!

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!!!

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 :)

If the middle ages are brutal, what hope for us is there in old age?

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.

Sigh, WHY hasn't Digging for Britain been available for YEARS on-line or in the USA?

Professor Alice Roberts is truly an assess to the country.

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?

I remember Professor Roberts from Time Team!

Alice is looking rather lovely in this interview.

I can feel the passion. Way to go Dr Roberts

How quickly time moves on, I can hardly believe Alice is 50.

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!

Alice Roberts is simply wonderful, on every level.

she's lovely,

I just love Alice. ❤

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😊

I’ve got my copy of her new book crypt, sitting on my nightstand, waiting to be read. 👍👍👍

Hobbes was right: life then was “nasty, brutish and short.” And I agree, interesting to learn about everyday life in medieval times.

I'd love to have a wife like Professor Alice Roberts❤

Best history teacher on tv .

Great presenter and so nice to see the pink hair dumped…she does not need that to make a statement

I still remember Alice on Time Team, when she must've been just a teenager!! 😍

These days are coming back .! 😊

& yet here we are - millions and millions of us ............

I fancy this lovely Dr. 💕

There has and always will be violence in the world.

We may not have the number of deaths from illness nowadays but there are still just as many, probably more, deaths from brutality.

Alice is top eye candy too ❤

I dig her 😢

Alice Roberts is amazing and inspiring. Truly she is having an incredible human journey. 💫👏💫

She still looks like she did in Time Team. Different colour hair always suited her. Still stunning at 50...

Life was short and brutal

She is wearing well.

Remember her on time team as a student.

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.

Just perfect lady natural intelligence and beauty

We are so much more civilied in the 20/21 st centuries.

The Roman dodecahedron is probably a dice for a game.

‘Yes, I have thought about writing an episode of EastEnders’.

poor vikings, any one would think they came in peace, abit of wokery, thrown in

My dad taught me not to speak with my hands. He said it wasn't English

Brutality and Suffering now, is if someone get's your pronoun or gender wrong.

We’re not in the Middle Ages any more… at the moment.

very interesting

The so-called St Brice's Day Massacre is a little more complicated than presented during that clip.

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.

Not that i watch Breakfast T.V., but has Sally always been that up-front ?😍

Her presentation speaks to the fact that people haven't really changed or evolved all that much over time...

Loved her since she was first on time team with bright red hair. Well before her presenting days. She barely to go mention then.

A speech by a leader setting neighbour against neighbour because of migration? Hmmm. She did say the 10th Century didn’t she?

Alice is just pure class. With whatever she does.

Nice rack on Sally.

My great great grandfather was in the Romans, and they didn't know what the dodecahedron was for, either!

Yum yum.

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My grandad, who fought in WW1, but was essentially a pacifist and was proud of the fact he never aimed his gun at the enemy, used to say "you don't know you're born!". We took this to mean we don't know how lucky we are. And we are, but we don't appreciate it. King Richard Iii, had worms and had a spinal condition that is now routinely treated by the NHS.

Im surprised no one is claiming compensation for the hurt caused in the middle ages.

I don’t know which one of these women would be a better representative of Bristol city UU

Fascinating. How does this knowledge help us today? History that doesn't speak to the contemporary moment is only theoretical (and not practical).

Glad to see that purple hair gone.

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 presenters…….. they delivered 2 sentences between them. Why does it take two people to deliver two sentences? Sack one of them, save money - sorted. !

It’s refreshing hearing her refer to it as the Black Death instead of the BBC’s preferred narrative as the plague 😂😂

Does she still claim the Anglo Saxon invasion was a peaceful affair?

so it turns out someone has figured out these dodecahedra - theyre for making gold jewellery, specifically gold braids

She must be fun at parties. “Hey, tell us some leprosy stories!”.

The middle ages were tough but the people were happier than we are today.

"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 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.

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.

Antibiotics are the real game changer.

when we had a life killing disease that really did kill a lot of people no one had to be forced to wear a mask or stay home, people would isolate themselves without being asked.

Unlike the brutality we have now. 🤣

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.

She looks older with blonde hair,but like most I love this woman

She first raised her head on Time team, around season 6

Great lady, so pleased that the hair is now just great, for the first time. Great brain, good engagement with people. Hooray.

I find her beautiful

Alice could be Victoria Coren Mitchells sister.

It's obviously - The Romans were playing DnD!

Nobody knows what the dodecahedrons are for.

Sounds like Huyton

She's too cerebral for her interviewers...

Has she seen the brutality happening in Gaza? Present age😢

I think this current governments over this current parliament must all be reincarnated from them... I wonder which would be the sheriff of Nottingham for example lol

I think Roman dodecahedron was a game played similar to 3 D cat's cradle.

Dodecahedron(12 sided)??? Is it a calendar?

Ah yes, it was all so ghastly in Brutal Blighty back then. Of course everywhere else it was peachy! They had rainbow lanyards and almond milk cappucino and tofu and everything civilised…

Zawsze mnie przerażała ilość ludzi, którzy zostali ścięci toporem w Anglii, okrutne prześladowania religijne, mordy polityczne. Za czasów Henryka VIII zamordowana 70 tys osób. W Polsce tego nie było.To mnie odrzuca od Anglii

Sounds as if nothing has really changed since then

Marry me Alice!

now tell something i dont know

“Hate speech” lol…not trying to assign modern day terms to events from 1000 yrs ago.