Bone Detectives: Britain's Buried Secrets

Series 2

2020 · 5 episodes · 3h 45m in all

Episodes

1. 1

   1. Episode 1

   26 Sept 2020 · 45 min

   The 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.

2. 2

   2. Episode 2

   3 Oct 2020 · 45 min

   Roadworks 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?

3. 3

   3. Episode 3

   10 Oct 2020 · 45 min

   Tucked 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.

4. 4

   4. Episode 4

   17 Oct 2020 · 45 min

   A 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.

5. 5

   5. Episode 5

   24 Oct 2020 · 45 min

   Tori 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.