Professor Alice Roberts will lead her audience on a journey through humankind, genetics and archaeology in From Cell to Civilisation at the Woking Theatre on November 13 at 7.30pm.

She said: “I’m thrilled to be bringing a new stage show to the UK in November exploring the story of us, From Cell to Civilisation, blending archaeology, evolutionary biology and genetics and using theatrical sound, light and imagination to bring the science to life in a way that you’ve never seen before.

“We’ll be tracing our origins back, not just to the dawn of our own species, but to the origin of life on this planet. That’s four billion years of evolution in one evening.

“I’m really excited about this, I’ve taken this show to Australia, to Canada, and now it’s coming to the UK in November. I can’t wait to share this story with you.”

Alice will ask the big questions - who are we, where do we come from and what does it mean to be human.

For thousands of years they have been explored through philosophy and religion, but the answers now seem to lie firmly within the grasp of an empirical approach to the world and our place within it.

By peering deep into the past and dragging clues out into the light, science can now provide some of the answers to the questions that people have always asked.

From the first spark of life on Earth 3.8 billion years ago, the show will track the evolution and connectivity of all living things.

It will follow in the footsteps of our ancestors, from Africa into Asia and around the Indian coastline, to Australia, north into Europe and Siberia, and, eventually, to the last continents to be peopled: the Americas. The audience will meet some other human species along the way.

Alice will examine the sophistication of some of the earliest civilisations, and discuss how people know what they know, why they think what they think, and what the science can tell.

This is the story of us, from single cell to civilisation.

Professor Alice Roberts is a broadcaster and author who specialises in human anatomy and evolution, archaeology, and history.

She made her television debut on Channel 4's Time Team and has presented more than 100 television programmes, including primetime BBC series Digging for Britain.

Since 2023 Alice has been a professor of public engagement with science at the University of Birmingham, where she teaches human anatomy to medical students.

She is the author of the Sunday Times best-selling Domination, Ancestors, Buried, and Crypt, and several popular science books, including The Incredible Unlikeness of Being. She recently published her first children's novel, Wolf Road.

Other books include Don't Die Young: An Anatomist's Guide to Your Organs and Your Health, The Incredible Human Journey and The Complete Human Body.

Documentaries include Origins of Us, Prehistoric Autopsy, The Incredible Human Journey, Ice Age Giants, Coast, Digging for Britain, Time Team and Britain's Most Historic Towns.

For tickets, priced from £44, visit www.atgtickets.com