Her first footsteps, teeth, words, in fact everything baby Charlotte Goldsmith does for the next 20 years, will be caught on camera in a new BBC programme.

Charlotte, just over a month old and from the Colchester area, is among the babies born at the dawn of the new millennium picked for the television project Child of Our Time.

Leading fertility expert Lord Winston, who previously presented the Human Body, will be keeping tabs on the children from pre-natal to adulthood to find out what really affects a baby's personality.

With experiments and research, the programme also aims to answer the nature or nurture debate.

To get the inside story, Charlotte's parents Paul and Emma will be one of the 20 sets of parents also starring in the documentary

Charlotte makes her debut in the second episode of the programme, which starts on BBC1 at 9.30pm on Wednesday.

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