Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time

Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time (2026- )

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St Bartholomew's Hospital is one of the most extraordinary institutions in the world: the oldest hospital in Britain still operating on its original site, and today a global leader in cutting-edge medicine.

This series has unprecedented access to both its modern wards and its private archive – a unique collection spanning nearly 1,000 years of medical history, unseen anywhere else. Leading the series is Professor Alice Roberts, whose expertise as an anatomist and historian places her at the heart of this journey. From brutal early surgery to robot-assisted operations, she reveals how centuries of risk and innovation shaped modern medicine.

Network
Scheduleevery Wednesday at 20:00 (60 min)

Last Episode

Episode 4
Season 1Episode 460 min

Episode 4

Alice meets a 24-year-old cancer patient who has come in for urgent treatment, comparing the high-dose chemotherapy drugs he is given to those available in the apothecary shop set up in Barts in the 1600s. She also looks back at the Great Plague of 1665, asking medical historian Lesley Smith how modern-day medics would have dealt with the patients that arrived at the hospital.

Mar 11, 2026

Recent Episodes

EpisodeNameAirdate
S01E04Episode 4Mar 11, 2026
S01E03Episode 3Mar 4, 2026
S01E02Episode 2Feb 25, 2026
S01E01Episode 1Feb 18, 2026
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Cast

Alice Roberts

Alice Roberts

plays herself
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Characters

Presenter

Presenter

played by Alice Roberts
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Also known as

  • Our Hospital Through Time with Alice Roberts
  • Barts: Our Hospital Through Time with Alice Roberts

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