Digging For Britain, Prehistory

An awe-inspiring year of archaeological digs with Dr Alice Roberts. Roman finds include an amazing coin hoard and a man buried on a pile of dead animals.

Humans are found to have lived in Britain earlier than thought when tools are unearthed in Norfolk, while some of our ancestors' customs are revealed at a dig in Orkney.

In Northumbria, skeletons tell tales of violent death and tenderness, and people curate grave goods in an amazing community project.

Dr Alice Roberts pays tribute to the Bard, visiting Shakespeare's first theatre in London's Shoreditch and sifting through the poet's rubbish!