[AstroNet] Special TV broadcast

[Isobel Basset]

     *STEPHEN HAWKING - EXCLUSIVE TV BROADCAST*
 
CHANNEL: SABC2
DATE: MONDAY JULY 7
TIME: 19h30.
PROGRAMME 50/50

Synposis:

Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge, granted an 
exclusive television interview to WITS Professor David Block and former 
Cabinet Minister Pik Botha, during his recent visit to South Africa.
The interview will be televised on the programme 50/50, Monday July 7th.

Also included are two Nobel prize winners, David Gross and George Smoot, 
as well as the Administrator of NASA, Michael Griffin.

The broadcast includes an interview with Professor Neil Turok, of the 
University of Cambridge, whose dream it is to search for the Next 
Einstein on the continent of Africa.

This July broadcast also coincides with the birthday month of Mr 
Mandela.  Viewers will also be able to see Stephen Hawking photographed 
alonsigde Nelson Mandela.

In 1999, Stephen Hawking gave Pik Botha (who was visiting Hawking in 
Cambridge)  the following message, to hand to him.

President Mandela:
"President Mandela is someone I really admire.
I hope to be able to meet him.
I'm glad to have met you [Pik Botha].
I admire the way that the government of which you were a part, managed 
to find a peaceable way out of a situation that seemed doomed to end in 
disaster.
It was one of the great achievements of the century."

The dream of Hawking  meeting Mandela was realized.

The mind of Stephen Hawking - the world's most famous scientist -
tackles in-depth questions in the interview, such as life occurring 
elsewhere in the Universe and the holy grail question:
Does Stephen Hawking believe in Life after Death?

	
Isobel Bassett <www.saao.ac.za> <isb at saao.ac.za <mailto:isb at saao.ac.za>>
Public Outreach Communications Officer

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