Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
The story of Professor Stephen Hawking's early years. It is 1963, and our young cosmologist celebrates his 21st birthday. At the party is a new friend, Jane Wilde - there is a strong attraction between the two. Jane is intrigued by Stephen's talk of stars and the Universe. But she realises that there is something very wrong when Stephen suddenly finds that he is unable to stand up.
- physics
- biography
- scientist
- 1960s
- phd thesis
- cambridge university
The bill
Benedict Cumberbatch
Stephen Hawking
Peter Firth
Sir Fred Hoyle
Tom Ward
Roger Penrose
Lisa Dillon
Jane Wilde
- John Sessions — Dennis Sciama
- Phoebe Nicholls — Isobel Hawking
- Michael Brandon — Arno Penzias
- Tom Hodgkins — Robert Wilson
- Alice Eve — Martha Guthrie
- Adam Godley — Frank Hawking
- Matthew Marsh — Dr. John Holloway
- Anastasia Hille — Nurse Susan McClean
- Christian Rubeck — Reporter
- Bertie Carvel — George Ellis
- Carolina Giammetta — Lidia Sciama
- Directed
- Philip Martin
- Written
- Peter Moffat
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 161 ratings
- Studio
- BBC
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