Family values

In a recent BBC documentary, Tim, the son of renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, revealed that his dad is “hugely competitive” and showed him “no compassion at all” when he was growing up.

Tim, now 36, said two of his few avenues of coping with such a famous, oblivious father were when he used to race around in his dad’s specialised (and expensive) wheelchair pretending that it was a go-kart and for those deliciously awkward moments, adding cuss words to his father’s synthesised speech software.

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