Episode 1 podcast now available on the link below.
Here is further info on the session today,
Maureen

Episode 2 - Broadcast March 11, 2009

Harry Harlow with baby Rhesus monkey and it's wire frame surrogate mother.
In the 1950’s and 60’s psychologist Harry Harlow conducted a series of 
experiments with monkeys which were to have a profound influence on our 
ideas about early childhood. He removed monkeys from their mothers at birth 
and gave them access to either a wire surrogate mother with a nipple for 
nursing or a cloth surrogate that was soft but had no opportunity for 
nursing.

Harry Harlow’s experiments demonstrated without a doubt the importance of 
early experience in shaping both biology and behaviour. His work was a 
milestone in the nature/nurture debate and tipped the balance toward 
nurture. But the debate raged on, and with the advent of the human genome 
project, the balance shifted again toward nature. Jill Eisen talks to 
scientists Steve Suomi, Michael Meaney, and Tom Boyce, who say the old 
debate is obsolete. They claim it’s neither nature nor nurture, but nature 
and nurture interacting to shape us in the early years.

From Julieanne:

podcast will be available via Canadian radio for listening the day
following broadcast (March 11) - looks like being very interesting.

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/brains-of-babes/

Cheers, Julieanne\IBCLC, Australia

 

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