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A Box of Wittgensteins

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Margaret investigates what happened to her Wittgenstein relations after the war.

Margaret Stonborough investigates what happened to her Wittgenstein relations after the war, through the family archive.

The great-niece of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Margaret Stonborough, talks to the artist and historian Michael Huey as she delves into six boxes of newly-inherited family archives and investigates the lives of her talented, but tortured, forbears.

Margaret and her brother, Jerome Stonborough, discover documents which stir childhood memories of their talented, stylish but difficult family.

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The great-niece of Ludwig Wittgenstein investigates the lives of her forbears.

The great-niece of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Margaret Stonborough, talks to the artist and historian Michael Huey as she delves into six boxes of newly inherited family archives.

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