2024-04-21
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Lauren la Verne and this is the Desert Island Discs podcast.
Every week I ask my guests to choose the eight tracks, book and luxury they'd want to take with them if they were cast away to a desert island.
And for rights reasons the music is shorter than the original broadcast.
I hope you enjoy listening.
My castaway this week is Professor Alice Roberts.
She's one of the most popular science communicators in Britain.
Today her BBC programme digging for Britain attracts millions of viewers and she has eleven series under her archaeological tool belt.
In her role as professor of public engagement in science at Birmingham University, she views sharing science with everyone as her moral responsibility.
Her work as a scientist and writer brings together established and emerging disciplines from anatomy, archaeology and anthropology to paleopathology, the study of ancient diseases and archaeogenomics, the fusion of archaeology and genetics.
She uses her discoveries to shine a light on our collective past, offering new answers to questions including whether humans and neanderthals into bread.
That would be a yes to when plague arrived in Europe.
That would be a lot earlier than wed imagined.
As for her own story, she trained as a doctor before her obsession with bones took her into academia and then into television as a specialist on time team.
She says ultimately im interested in how science and technology can be used with a strong dose of wisdom to make the world a better place.
Professor Alice Roberts, welcome to Desert island Discs.
Thank you very much.
I'm looking forward to being cast away on this island.
Oh honestly, you need the break having done all that.
So Alice, you're in a very interesting position as a scientist who studies history.