With appearances on comedy shows, books in the best-seller lists and the unforgettable image of a brilliant mind in an ailing body, Stephen Hawking has earned the title of the world's most famous ...

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Transcript of Stephen Hawking's first Reith Lecture My talk is on black holes. It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes.

Stephen Hawking, the "world's most famous scientist", is giving this year's BBC Reith Lectures. As a guide for the "interested but perplexed", I have added a few notes (in italics below) to the ...