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3: The Final Push | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You

A look at the final months in the womb, when cartilage hardens to form the skeleton. Produced in partn...

2: Against the Odds | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You

Michael Mosley looks at our middle weeks in the womb - when we become an individual. Produced in par...

1: The First 8 Weeks | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You

Michael Mosley presents the story of how you were made, in a series produced in partnership with Th...

Maternal deprivation | Disowned and Disabled

Bowlby's explanation of attachment theory and the impact of maternal deprivation.

Nowhere Else to Go | Disowned and Disabled

The first of two films traces the way care of disowned and disabled children changed in the decades after the Second World War, us...

Convoy to Romania

Focusing on a relief convoy to Romania which sparked a nationwide appeal to save handicapped children who were kept in appalling conditions.

3: The Final Push | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You

A look at the final months in the womb, when cartilage hardens to form the skeleton. Produced in partn...

2: Against the Odds | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You

Michael Mosley looks at our middle weeks in the womb - when we become an individual. Produced in par...

1: The First 8 Weeks | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You

Michael Mosley presents the story of how you were made, in a series produced in partnership with Th...

1: Becoming You | Babies: Their Wonderful World

This episode explores how changes in the first two years of life make us individuals, how tablet use affects our babies and w...

The effect of deprivation | The Forgotten Children

Learn about the long term effects of the early and extreme deprivation that Romanian orphans experienced.

Romanian orphans | The Forgotten Children

The context behind the Romanian orphans and the process of adoption.

The Forgotten Children

Ten years ago after thousands of babies were discovered living in appalling conditions in Romanian orphanages, many British couples rushed to adopt th...

Convoy to Romania

Focusing on a relief convoy to Romania which sparked a nationwide appeal to save handicapped children who were kept in appalling conditions.

1: Becoming You | Babies: Their Wonderful World

This episode explores how changes in the first two years of life make us individuals, how tablet use affects our babies and w...

The effect of deprivation | The Forgotten Children

Learn about the long term effects of the early and extreme deprivation that Romanian orphans experienced.

Romanian orphans | The Forgotten Children

The context behind the Romanian orphans and the process of adoption.

Risk-taking | Inside the Human Body

Meet Stephanie, her teen brain allows her to take more risks when car racing compared to competitors.

Synaptic pruning | Inside the Human Body

Michael Mosley explains how during brain development, synaptic pruning occurs and what this means for behaviour

9: Ninth and Tenth Month | Baby Monthly

The babies are between nine and ten months old and are beginning to explore their world, react to danger and new faces. Also consider...

3: Building Your Brain | Inside the Human Body

Michael Mosley examines the human brain from birth to adulthood and shows why it takes 20 years to mature.

3: Dyslexia | Growing Children

Laverne Antrobus explores how growing children are affected by the common learning disability of dyslexia through the eyes of children and fam...

2: OCD | Growing Children

Laverne Antrobus explores how child development is affected by obsessive compulsive disorder and how research is unlocking a greater understanding ...

The Forgotten Children

Ten years ago after thousands of babies were discovered living in appalling conditions in Romanian orphanages, many British couples rushed to adopt th...

The words we use about getting older and why they matter | Word of Mouth

How we talk about getting older can affect how we age, both mentally and physically. Michael asks Dr...

Episode 2 | The Secret Life of Twins (2009)

How the differences between identical twins can help science understand what makes us all who we are, including the possible gene...

Episode 1 | The Secret Life of Twins (2009)

Investigating the world of identical twins, this programme looks at what science can learn from the uncanny similarities between ...

Episode 3 | The Secret Life of Twins (1999)

Prof Robert Winston, examining science of identical twins, with a look at differences that occur inspite of biological similariti...

Episode 2 | The Secret Life of Twins (1999)

Robert Winston uses the behavioural similarities exhibited by twins who were separated at birth and reunited in adulthood to exam...

Episode 1 | The Secret Life of Twins (1999)

Prof Robert Winston examines science of identical twins to reveal human genetics and behaviour. Looks at risky start to life expe...

The Romanian Orphanages | The Reunion

Kirsty Wark brings together a group of people whose lives were changed by the discovery of long-neglected Romanian orphanages in 1990.

The Teenage Brain | Medical Matters

Teenage behaviour has always been something of a mystery to parents. Edi Stark discovers what recent neuroscience has uncovered about the...

Journey of Love | Baby Be Mine

One couple travel to China to bring home a baby they know only via photographs, a woman wants to save a child from Romania, and a nurse goes t...