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A BBC drama based on events from the life of Stephen Hawking. A young theoretical physicist is diagnosed with motor neurone disease shortly before commencing his PhD in Cosmology at Oxford. Having been advised that he has less than two years to live, Stephen doesn't give much thought as to what his thesis might be on...Product Identifiers
EAN5019322204763
eBay Product ID (ePID)44100937
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleHawking
ActorLisa Dillon, John Sessions, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon
DirectorPhilip Martin
FormatDVD
Release Year2004
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama, General
Run Time93 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Additional InformationA BBC drama based on events from the life of Stephen Hawking. A young theoretical physicist is diagnosed with motor neurone disease shortly before commencing his PhD in Cosmology at Oxford. Having been advised that he has less than two years to live, Stephen doesn't give much thought as to what his thesis might be on...<BR>But the two years pass and he finds himself alive, engaged to be married and in need of a qualification in order to get a job. His thesis changes the way the entire western world accepts the creation of the Universe. He went on to write 'A Brief History Of Time' which explains some of the most complex theories about the evolution of the universe, touching upon such topics as black holes, antimatter, the Big Bang, Einstein's theory of relativity, and the search for extraterrestrial life.