Survivors of the Ice Age

Join Professor Alice Roberts for the 14th annual Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture, as we take a look closer look at the Survivors of the Ice Age.

Our ancestors spread across a world filled with wonderful megafauna - huge beasts like woolly mammoths, mastodons, sabre tooth cats and cave bears. Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers made paintings of Ice Age animals inside caves in France and Spain, and made ivory carvings of them. But by the end of the Great Ice Age, many of those animals had disappeared forever.

Do you think you could survive and Ice Age?

After studying medicine at Cardiff University, Alice worked as a doctor before moving into academia with a job in the anatomy department at Bristol University. She undertook research on ancient human remains, and was asked by Channel 4's Time Team to write reports on some human bones they had excavated. In 2001, she made an unexpected start on her media career when the bone reporting led to appearances on screen. She went on to present programmes and series on BBC2 including Coast, The Incredible Human Journey, Don't Die Young and The Origins of Us. Alice considers herself to be an environmentalist, and she is an occasional presenter of Costing the Earth on Radio 4. She believes that one of the most important lessons of evolutionary biology is that humans are part of Nature, not separate from it.

This lecture is set to be an exciting and inspiring evening. With funds going to support Save the Rhino International and the Environmental Investigation Agency.