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The Moody Genius

Episode 2 of 4

Margaret Stonborough investigates the life of her great uncle, the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, through the family archive.

Margaret Stonborough, the great-niece of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, talks to artist and historian Michael Huey as she delves into six boxes of newly-inherited family archives. As she digs deeper into the talented but tortured lives of the Wittgensteins she finds her cramped London house becoming ever more crowded with her larger-than-life forbears.

At the end of the First World War, letters and artefacts show that the surviving Wittgensteins were attempting to pick up their lives but they are rarely far from tragedy. Within a few years, the family history of suicide loomed over them once again.

The readers are Sarah Finch, Nicholas Rowe and Dan Starkey.

15 minutes

Last on

Mon 20 Mar 2017 02:15

Broadcasts

  • Sun 21 Dec 2008 14:45
  • Sat 9 Jan 2010 05:45
  • Sun 30 Mar 2014 07:15
  • Sun 30 Mar 2014 13:15
  • Sun 19 Mar 2017 07:15
  • Sun 19 Mar 2017 14:15
  • Mon 20 Mar 2017 02:15