Hawking

At the end of January 1963, 21-year-old Stephen Hawking, a young theoretical physicist, listened carefully to the words of a senior neurologist as he explained that within two years, Stephen would be dead. He had been diagnosed with ALS - amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or motor neurone disease. Hawing is a record of the next two extraordinary years culminating in one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of any age. Like the discoveries of Galileo, Darwin and Eintein, Hawking's book 'A Brief History of Time' changed the way we think about our universe and ourselves. More importantly, Hawking is an emotional and tender story - one of love, ambition, pride and sacrifice. It is a record of human behaviour at its most extreme limits as we witness the prospect of death nearly destroying and then transforming Stephen Hawking.