The BBC will attempt to answer the age-old question of the nature-nurture relationship in an ambitious new television series, Child of Our Time. The multimillion pound project will follow 20 babies from conception to birth in January, and through the first 20 years of their lives. Presented by the UK's best-known fertility expert Robert Winston, it is to be the flagship of the BBC's winter season.
Extensive genetic testing will be performed on both the parents and children, and social factors will be tracked and analysed. The programme team will return to the families for updates every six months in the early stages of development and then less frequently as the children grow up.
Child of Our Times will be linked with another BBC project, Surrogate Babies, a four-part series which has, for three years, tracked the relationship between childless couples and surrogate mothers.
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