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TV boffin Professor Robert Winston visited the Asquith Nursery in Golders Green, north London

(Photograph) - TV boffin Professor Robert Winston visited the Asquith Nursery in Golders Green, north London, to film part of his latest series of 'A Child of Our Time' for the BBC. The series, which ends on 22 January, is part of a unique 20-year experiment that follows 25 children born in 2000 from birth to adulthood. Nursery manager Carly Tarrant said, 'Professor Winston spent two hours with us and was really good with the children. After the filming he sat down with them and spent some time modelling playdough and chatting to them. When he left he made a point of saying goodbye to each one of them by name.'

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