A series of five programmes in which Dr Martin Bax of St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, examines how researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are disentangling the remarkable process by which babies acquire language.
Day-old babies can recognise their own mother's voice. Is it something they learn in the first 24 hours or have they, as some scientists believe, been learning about language while still In the womb?
'...light years away from the lifeless liturgy of developmental milestones' (PULSE) Producer ALISON RICIIARDS