About this season
Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together life stories behind unearthed bones
Episodes (5)
1. Episode 1
Aired 26 September 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. Episode 2
Aired 3 October 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. Episode 3
Aired 10 October 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. Episode 4
Aired 17 October 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. Episode 5
Aired 24 October 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.