Neanderthals: Meet Your Ancestors

Ella enlists the aid of a special effects company, movie star and master of performance capture Andy Serkis and experts around the world to create the world's first scientifically accurate 3D working avatar of a Neanderthal.

Ella Al-Shamahi explores the fate of the Neanderthals - asking why they became extinct, and discovering how they live on inside of us today. The programme starts in the caves of Gibraltar, which may have been the last place the Neanderthals survived. But about 40,000 years ago they disappeared.