[Music] I'm Lucy Hawking I'm Steven Hawking's daughter it just used to cause absolute consternation you know people would just stand there and stare as my father had his own electric wheelchair which he used to drive at great speed across the whole of Cambridge accompanied by me and my older brother so two sort of blonde little Muppets running alongside with ice creams I think in horror amazement and shock how was this disabled Man Out by himself what were these children doing people just couldn't process the site my father always had lots of scientific colleagues who'd come
for dinner pretty much every night and they would discuss extraordinary topics you know and no topic was out of bounds and as a child you could ask any question you wanted and get a reply I think it's my son's 8th or 9th birthday party and one of my son's friends went up to my dad and said oh Steven what would happen to me if I fell in a black hole and everyone was really interested and everyone waited for the answer and my father said you'd be turned into spaghetti of course all the kids were really
world and they totally understood his answer um and all the adults kind of pretended they did oh yes yes and I realized that was a story like what would he be doing out there in space and so I said to my father I think we should do this I think I'll write the story and you put in the accurate scientific descriptions of the universe once upon a time there was a scientist called Steven he also had a little daughter called Lucy people who have lived in war zones I mean people who've lived in really extreme
circumstan ances seem to find something very very inspirational in his example of perseverance and persistence and his kind of ability to rise above his his suffering and still want to communicate at a higher level with humor to a world population [Music]
