What is Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time?
Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time is a new six-part documentary series where Professor Alice Roberts goes behind the scenes at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London.
When is Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time on TV?
The first episode of Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time will air on Channel 5 at 8pm on Wednesday 18 February 2026.
What is St Bartholomew's Hospital?
St Bartholomew’s Hospital is an internationally renowned teaching hospital in the City of London, and the oldest hospital in Britain still operating on its original site.
In the first episode of Alice Roberts: Our Hospital Through Time, Professor Roberts visits St Bartholomew’s archives and sees one of their most precious items – an 1137 document for a grant signed by Barts’s founder, a courtier called Rahere, still bearing its original wax seal.
The series follows cutting-edge medical treatment at modern-day St Bartholomew’s. We follow the team as they use a live x-ray feed to treat a heart patient, and treat a tumour on a patient’s eyelid with radiotherapy. Meanwhile, Professor Roberts finds out about the history of medicine. She heads to the Pathology Museum to see the amputated fingers of early x-ray practitioners, and learns from historian Ruth Goodman about the Victorian hospitals where patients had to sleep on the floor. She even tries out some grisly surgery techniques from the 1600s for herself.
Who is Professor Alice Roberts?
Professor Alice Roberts is a former doctor and anatomy demonstrator. She has presented history and archaeology documentaries including Time Team, The Big Dig, Curse of the Ancients with Alice Roberts, Royal Autopsy, and Lost Grail with Alice Roberts.
