Professor Stephen Hawking begins a spectacular six-part journey through cosmology by tracing the history of mankind's thinking from the Ancient Greeks through the work of Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Hubble.
Sophisticated computer graphics illustrate the evolution of the cosmos and the matter within it as never seen before.
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Stephen Hawking's Universe 7.45pm BBC2
"All my life I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us and have tried to find scientific answers to them," says Professor Stephen Hawking. "Perhaps that is why I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex." And this six-part series attempts to answer such questions: how did the universe begin? How will it end? There are also the greater mysteries between - with help from Hawking and a host of experts. And, like his book A Brief History of Time, which has sold eight million copies, it is surprisingly accessible, as well as beautifully filmed and cleverly constructed.
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