Tori Herridge and a team of scientists piece together the lives behind unearthed bones to find out their stories. Once a skeleton has been recorded, the bones immediately begin to reveal their mysteries, opening up a secret history of Britain.
EPISODE 1
Episode 1
Five bodies dating from the Bronze Age are found in a deep pit on the Isle of Thanet in Kent. One of them is an old woman, who has been manipulated into a position where she is pointing at something. The team try to find out at what and why.
EPISODE 2
Episode 2
Tori investigates the remains of children and teenagers found in the car park of the Victoria Gate shopping centre in Leeds.
EPISODE 3
Series 1 Episode 3
The remains of over 100 young Anglo-Saxon men are found under a planned car park in Hampshire. Tori and the scientists investigate why they were denied a Christian interment and buried so remotely.
Series 2 Episode 1
The team visit a long-forgotten cemetery in Ipswich where 1,400 bodies reveal signs of hard labour, disease, murder and possibly the country's first post-mortem.
Series 2 Episode 2
The remains of a young woman are found on the A9, in the far north of Scotland; the team investigates the bones that were found in a grave at Achavanich in Caithness, and compare them to a body buried near Oyne, Aberdeenshire.
Norton Priory
Tucked away in a Runcorn industrial park is the most excavated monastic site in Europe, revealing a story of medieval knights, brutal murder and ancient disease.
Raksha Dave
Carla Valentine
Tori Herridge
Michael Waterhouse
Jane Magowan
Brendan Hughes
Harry Bell
