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The Daycare Myth with Dr Dan Wuori, Early Childhood Policy Solutions
October 20, 2026 · 51 minDr Dan Wuori, founder of Early Childhood Policy Solutions and author of the Grawemeyer Award-nominated book The Daycare Myth, joins Best Beginnings to make the case that separating childcare from education is a century-old myth that has…
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Dr. Stephanie Culler: 90% of Babies Are Missing Key Gut Bacteria
October 13, 2026 · 36 minDr. Stephanie Culler, co-founder and CEO of Persephone Bioscience, joins George to share the findings from the My Baby Biome study, one of the largest examinations of the infant gut microbiome ever conducted in the United States. They…
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The Case for Early Childhood with Christian Guy, Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood
October 6, 2026 · 40 minChristian Guy, Executive Director of the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood, joins Best Beginnings to talk about what it actually takes to shift a society around the earliest years of life. The conversation covers the Shaping Us…
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Professor Linda Mayes: The Relationship That Changes Everything for Children and Parents
September 29, 2026 · 41 minProfessor Linda Mayes, Director of the Yale Child Study Center, joins George to explore what it really takes to change a child's story. They discuss the neuroscience of parenting, why stress overwhelms the reward of caring for a baby, how…
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Perinatal Anxiety, OCD and the Science of the Parent Mind with Dr. Fiona Challacombe
September 22, 2026 · 48 minAnxiety disorders are more common than depression in the perinatal period, but most parents and most clinicians still don't know it. In this episode, George speaks with Dr. Fiona Challacombe, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at…
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Professor Claire Hughes: Siblings, Happy Schools and What Twenty Years of Data Reveals
September 15, 2026 · 32 minProfessor Claire Hughes, Cambridge's deputy director at the Centre for Family Research, joins Best Beginnings for a conversation shaped by more than twenty years of following the same children from the age of two. She talks about what…
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Dr Sanjiv Nichani OBE: Why the Young Brain Was Never Built for This
September 8, 2026 · 32 minDr Sanjiv Nichani OBE, consultant paediatric intensivist and author of Movement is Medicine, joins Best Beginnings to explain why young children's brains are evolutionarily defenceless against smartphones and social media and what the…
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Best Beginnings Season 2 Trailer: New Season, New Voices
September 1, 2026 · 2 minSeason 2 of Best Beginnings starts 8 September. This trailer brings together six of the voices joining George this season, moving from the science shaping a child's biology to the systems and relationships shaping their everyday life. New…
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Camilla Reid: What School Readiness Really Means
July 28, 2026 · 41 minCamilla Reid, author of Pip and Posy and I Am Ready for School, joins Best Beginnings to talk about what children really need before they start school. In a wide-ranging conversation with George, she makes the case that school readiness is…
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Sally Hogg: Why Early Childhood Change Never Sticks
July 21, 2026 · 53 minSally Hogg, founding director of Start Strong and founder of the 1001 Days Movement, joins Best Beginnings to explain why early childhood investment keeps cycling through without lasting change. She discusses the gap between what the…
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The Richmond Project's Lizzie Gaisman on the maths anxiety we pass to our children
July 14, 2026 · 41 minLizzie Gaisman, CEO of the Richmond Project, joins George to discuss the findings from the UK's largest ever survey on how people feel about numbers and what it reveals about a confidence crisis that starts early, falls hardest on mothers…
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Home Start's Jodie Reed on the 1 in 5 parents the system can't reach
July 7, 2026 · 36 minJodie Reed, co-CEO of Home Start UK, joins George to talk about what 9,000 trained volunteers do for over 60,000 families every year and why that work can't be replicated by statutory services. They cover why family isolation is a…
About the show
Best Beginnings is the podcast for everyone working in or caring about the early years. Hosted by George Looker, CEO of Babyzone, each episode brings together leading researchers, clinicians, practitioners, policymakers and parents to explore the evidence, ideas and innovations shaping how we support children and families in the UK.
From infant mental health and attachment to workforce challenges and systems change, Best Beginnings goes beyond the headlines to have the conversations that matter most in early childhood.
New episodes drop every Tuesday.
Best Beginnings is brought to you by Babyzone, a national charity operating free, evidence-based family hubs across England for families with children aged 0–5.