Appearances
Rebecca regularly appears publicly in various contexts. An accomplished speaker, her experience includes radio, television, festivals, podcasts, public outreach events, academic conferences and special-interest tours.
She is also often interviewed or asked for comment on archaeology and evolution stories in international news media.
A full appearance listing appears below.
Upcoming
Symphony of the Wild, BBC Radio 3
Recent
New Scientist Neanderthals tour, France, June 2025
Intelligence2 podcast (interviewing Moudhy Al-Rashid)
Chalke History Festival 2025
2025
Chalke History Festival
2024
Chalke History Festival
Darwin Medal Lecture, Humanists UK 'L'Ultimo Meraviglio Minuto' exhibition opening, Rome
'Neanderthal Women' exhibition opening, Mettmann
2023
Jaipur Literature Festival
Glastonbury Festival, Crows Nest; In conversation with Alice Roberts and panel discussion with Janina Ramirez, Tamsin Edwards, Suzi Gage and Alice Roberts
Monty Lit Fest Women's Institute
2022
'Meetings with Neanderthals' Theatre 132 Bristol, in conversation with Alice Roberts
Uppsala University, 2022 Lindqvist Lecture, Sweden
Centre for Paleogenetics and Stockholm Natural History Museum, Sweden
Neanderthal Museum [launch of German Kindred edition "Der Verkannte Mensch"]
HEAS seminar, University of Vienna. Austria
Italian Embassy, Berlin, Germany [speaking as Premio Galileo finalist]
Aarhus University, Denmark
University of Padua, Italy, Premio Galileo finalist
Natural History Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Historiske Dage (history festival), Copenhagen, Denmark
'On Hobbits and Hominins', Oxford University Natural History Museum
New Scientist Live, London
Daunt Books Festival, interviewing Thomas Halliday
Jersey Heritage, Guest Lecture
Poetry Pharmacy
Prehistoric Society and Leicester Fieldworkers
2021
Laugharne Weekend festival, Wales
Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, Spain [panel event for Kindred Spanish edition launch]
Museo de la Evolución Humana, Burgos, Spain
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Cancer Research Institute, Retreat Keynote
Norwich Science Festival
Genoa Science Festival, Italy
Creswell Crags, Kindred paperback launch
2020
New Scientist Instant Expert Human Origins Day
University of Chester
Radio
2023
BBC World Service, The Forum
2022
BBC Radio 5 Live, Nicky Campbell
WNPR
2021
BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour
BBC Homeschool History
Times Radio (speaking on The Dig)
Infinite Monkey Cage, BBC Radio 4
CBC Sunday Magazine
Times Radio (speaking on Neanderthals)
Radio Br.de [German]
RAIRadio3 [Italian]
2020
BBC Radio 4 Start the Week
BBC Radio 4 “You’re Dead To Me”
CBC Quirks and Quarks show
SiriusXM Constant Wonder
Leonard Lopate show WNYC radio
Science Cafe BBC Radio Wales
Newstalk History
Newstalk, FutureProof
Television
2022
BBC News, Victoria Derbyshire show
2025
New Scientist podcast Intelligence2 podcast (interviewing Moudhy Al-Rashid)
2024
Blazing The Trail podcast
2023
RHLSTP: Richard Herring book podcast
2022
Insult My Intelligence with Tim Dowling
Writer's Voice
Foreword
Women Archaeologists
2021
Bill Nye's Science Rules! podcast
Leakey Foundation Origins Stories podcast
Alan Alda's Clear and Vivid podcast
Nicky Campbell, One of the Family
New Scientist Weekly podcast
Evolution Soup
2020
Michael Shermer's Science Salon
#GeneticsShambles, Cosmic Shambles
Background Mode podcast
Book Shambles, with Robin Ince
2022
Society of Antiquaries
Washington University
Oxford University
Harvard Book Store
Dig Ventures book club
2021
Jersey Literary Festival
Clywd Powys Archaeological Trust
Eat Prey, Run: A live 'Neanderthal' Cook-Along
Swindon Science Festival
BBC History Extra lecture
2020
In conversation with Brian Cox, How To Academy
Nine Lessons and Carols with Robin Ince
Hong Kong Literary Festival
Smithsonian Institution seminar
Messums Gallery lecture
Creswell Crags live seminar
Cosmic Shambles Genetics show
American Museum of Natural History seminar
Who Were The Neanderthals? New Scientist.
University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology
Pre-2020 appearances
BBC Radio 4 The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry
Panellist at British Science Festival
Panellist at PopPalaeo
Cosmic Superheroes exhibition