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January 2025

  • Evan Rachel Wood in Marilyn Manson: Unmasked on Channel 4.

    TV tonight

    TV tonight: Evan Rachel Wood speaks out on allegations against Marilyn Manson

    A disturbing but brilliant documentary series featuring the women who made similar claims about the ‘antichrist superstar’. Plus: Alice Roberts unearths treasure in the north. Here’s what to watch this evening

June 2024

  • Summer reading 2024

    Your holiday reading list: chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more

    Leading authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Armistead Maupin and Alice Roberts recommend books to read this summer

January 2024

  • Vanessa Kirby is excellent as the pragmatic, straight-talking Jen

    Audiobook of the week

    Good Material by Dolly Alderton audiobook review – a funny account of millennial love

  • Alice Roberts portrait at Hay Festival 2022, Wales.

    Sunday with Alice Roberts: ‘I’ve trained my children to bring me tea in bed’

June 2021

  • Bryn Celli Ddu, a Neolithic passage tomb on the Isle of Anglesey.. Image shot 2003. Exact date unknown.<br>EFPXGD Bryn Celli Ddu, a Neolithic passage tomb on the Isle of Anglesey.. Image shot 2003. Exact date unknown.

    Book of the day

    Ancestors by Alice Roberts review – a story of movement and migration

    A brilliant scientific storyteller reads stone, pottery and bones to bring us the latest moving updates about our prehistoric ancestors

August 2020

  • Professor Alice Roberts pictured in her home city of Bristol<br>Pics - Adrian Sherratt - 07976 237651 Professor Alice Roberts pictured in her home city of Bristol (6 Oct 2017).

    Alice Roberts: 'Atheism is defining yourself by an absence. Humanism is a positive choice'

    The broadcaster and scientist talks about her new guide to humanism, her opposition to classroom prayers and the government’s handling of Covid-19

November 2018

  • Alice Roberts

    TV scientist Alice Roberts to be president of Humanists UK

    Anthropologist, TV presenter and author takes over as figurehead of campaign group next year

October 2017

  • Professor Alice Roberts pictured in her home city of Bristol.

    A life in ...

    Alice Roberts: ‘Science needs more visible women’

  • Cows in field

    Book of the day

    Tamed by Alice Roberts review – 10 species that changed our world

September 2014

  • 'Evo-devo' begins with biology's fourth F: when sex is finished, life begins.

    The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being review – a masterful account of why our bodies are the way they are

    Alice Roberts combines embryology, genetics, anatomy, evolution and zoology to tell the incredible story of the human body, writes Adam Rutherford