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Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
I was walking past a television this afternoon and I swear to god there was Benedict Cumberbatch narrating a documentary on the Discovery channel.
Or am I just nuts? (To be fair, my mind kind of jumped to him when I saw Hawking's name)
Did anyone else see this, and if so do you agree that it was either him or a very scary sound-alike?
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- Tantalus
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Re: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
I didn't see it, but pretty sure Benedict played Stephen Hawking (in his earlier years) in a documentary or something. Seem I remember an interview where Benedict talked about how intimidating it was trying to talk to such a brilliant man...
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- Tantalus
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Oh, I re-read your original post, and I think you already knew that--you were talking about something else? No clue. I'll shut up now. I'm lowering the IQ of the entire forum...
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- Smoggy_London_Air
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Re: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
No, no, you're not! I did know that Benedict played him on Hawking, which is why they thought maybe he would make a good choice. That was a dramatisation, not a documentary, though. This, however, was a documentary.
He was actually reading stuff written by Hawking, which just strengthened the perception, because it obviously wasn't Hawking talking (it wasn't a computer, it was clearly a British man in his mid-thirties with a really sexy voice)
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Thread Starter- kazza474
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Re: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
Yes Benedict did narrate a documentary on Hawking called " Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking".
Here is more info on it here:
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Re: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
Haha! :D
Yes, he did indeed lend his voice to Stephen Hawking several times, including a TV documentary!
Hawking and Cumberbatch together is just perfection.
- Smoggy_London_Air
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Re: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
Yes! I knew it! I knew I knew that voice.
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Thread Starter- besleybean
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Re: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
I remain confused about this one.
Everybody kept going on about it being a new series, but I'm sure I've seen it before!
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- harleyq
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Re: Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
I actually watched/listened to this a couple of weeks ago. I'm not keen on much of Hawking's theories, but Ben's voice is an aphrodisiac that's very hard for me to resist. I watched as much as I could, given the material, which is more than I would have if not for that voice. 
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Thankfully I'm almost as big a fan of Hawking as I am of Benedict.
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