About this season
200 babies are brought together to take part in an ambitious scientific study exploring how the incredible changes that happen in the first two years of life make us who we are.
Episodes (3)
E1
1. Becoming You
Aired 26 November 2018
This episode explores how changes in the first two years of life make us individuals, how tablet use affects our babies and where our biases come from.
E2
2. Becoming Social
Aired 3 December 2018
Episode two looks at why we are born to respond to faces, what makes babies laugh and how we learn to empathise with others.
E3
3. Becoming Independent
Aired 10 December 2018
Episode three reveals how crawling transforms our understanding of the world, when our memory first develops and how we learn to talk.