Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets (2020)
Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones
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Episode 1 - Episode 1
Release Date: 2020-09-26The team visit a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich, where 1400 bodies reveal signs of hard labour, disease, murder, and possibly the country's first post-mortem.
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Episode 2 - Episode 2
Release Date: 2020-10-03Roadworks on the A9 in Scotland uncover the remains of a young woman who lived and died in the early Bronze Age. Was she one of the so-called Beaker People?
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Episode 3 - Episode 3
Release Date: 2020-10-10Tucked away in a Runcorn industrial park is Europe's most excavated monastic site. It reveals a story of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient disease.
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Episode 4 - Episode 4
Release Date: 2020-10-17A Wiltshire building site unearths eight Roman cemeteries and the remains of a man beheaded after burial. Who did this, and why? Tori and the team investigate.
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Episode 5 - Episode 5
Release Date: 2020-10-24Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the story behind the discovery of 13 bodies with the skulls cut open in a 19th-century Bristol graveyard. The investigation uncovers a link to a local hospital, a celebrated surgeon, and the crime of bodysnatching.