Good TV

So I was saying that I was feeling blue and in pain and generally its been a stay in bed day, but im glad I pulled myself together and got into my chair, wheeled to the louge to watch the following. I shall then do my evening physio and go back to bed. However if you have access to the Channel 4+1 or if you know how to get channel 4 on the web, watch this series.

Stephen Hawking’s Universe

Saturday 25 September
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Channel 4

2/3, series 1

The effects budget is really gobbled up in tonight’s enjoyably mind-bending edition, which asks whether time travel is possible. Hawking uses billiard balls and pyramids to answer the question. But the bulk of the visuals are taken up with impressive, sometimes movie-standard CGI. The theory is tricky stuff to take on board, but the Prof is admirably clear in his explanations. Funny, too. Instead of referring to the usual dilemmas so beloved of science-fiction writers, Hawking invents his own: the ‘mad scientist paradox’. Journeying into the past, it seems, is never going to happen. But into the future? Maybe…

Subtitled, Audio-described

Directed by: Nathan Williams