Kids & Family

Best Beginnings

by Babyzone

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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.

Latest episodes

The Case for Early Childhood with Christian Guy, Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood

October 6, 2026 · 40 min

Christian 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…
Professor Linda Mayes: The Relationship That Changes Everything for Children and Parents

September 29, 2026 · 41 min

Professor 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…
Perinatal Anxiety, OCD and the Science of the Parent Mind with Dr. Fiona Challacombe

September 22, 2026 · 48 min

Anxiety 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…
Professor Claire Hughes: Siblings, Happy Schools and What Twenty Years of Data Reveals

September 15, 2026 · 32 min

Professor 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…
Dr Sanjiv Nichani OBE: Why the Young Brain Was Never Built for This

September 8, 2026 · 32 min

Dr 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…
Best Beginnings Season 2 Trailer: New Season, New Voices

September 1, 2026 · 2 min

Season 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…
Camilla Reid: What School Readiness Really Means

July 28, 2026 · 41 min

Camilla 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…
Sally Hogg: Why Early Childhood Change Never Sticks

July 21, 2026 · 53 min

Sally 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…