Drama on 3: Surely someone remembers it?

[french frank]

Some time back in the, mmm, late 90s/early 00s?? there was a play (it might not have been the official "Drama on 3"), called something like: Life with the Wittgensteins, or At Home with the Wittgensteins. Not exactly a comedy, it told the family story, including that of Ludwig and Paul, over the war period. With (not sure I remember this accurately), an attempt to move some of the family wealth into Switzerland before the Nazis got their hands on it. The only member of the cast I remember was Eleanor Bron as a Wittgenstein sister. The writer or producer or director (or all three) was Piers Burton-Page.

I tried to locate this in the BBC genome project when it was first launched, and failed to turn anything up. 'War es ein Traum?'

[I think I posed this question many years ago and had no response ...]

[aeolium]

No, I can't recall it at all, ff. I was out of the country quite a bit during the 1990s so there's a fair chance it was on when I was away. I had a look through Genome too but I think there are quite a few gaps and errors in the data there.

It presumably is quite different from the documentary mentioned here:

http://www.suttonelms.org.uk/musicfact.html

[french frank]

Thanks, aeolium. No, sadly, that wasn't it. It might have been more a docu-drama but was really focused on the whole family, I think with bits about Ludwig in Cambridge. I tried emailing Piers Burton-Page a few years ago, but had no reply - he might already have left the bbc and I was just guessing the email address ... I wonder if Eleanor Bron would remember ... (no mention in her radio credits in W-hooo's W-hooo).

[french frank]

I find A Box of Wittgensteins on Radio 4. But it's a 4-part documentary which otherwise doesn't fill the bill.

[Honoured Guest]

You may be thinking of Radio 4's Monday Play broadcast at 8.00pm on 28 March 1983.

Her Name Was Milena by sam JACOBS based on the book
Kajkas Freundin Milena by MARGARETE BUBER-NEUMANN with Miriam Margolyes as Milena and Eleanor Bron as Margarete
October 1940. Ravensbruck
Concentration Camp. In this nightmarish setting a friendship begins and burns ' like a living fire ' ...
Directed by PIERS PLOWRIGHT

Contributors

Unknown: Kajkas Freundin Milena
Unknown: Margarete Buber-Neumann
Unknown: Miriam Margolyes
Unknown: Eleanor Bron
Directed By: Piers Plowright
Franz Kafka: Crawford Logan
SS Langerfeild: Rosalind Adams
SS Mendel: Joy Harrison
SS Binz: Jill Lidstone
Ramdor: Rob Iieyland
Machova: Kate Kendall
Palickova: Janine Turkie
Maria Wiedmier: Margot van Der Burgh
Olga Korner: Miranda Forbes

[french frank]

Looks interesting, HG, but no resonances (unless t'other Piers was the director and I was mistaken there). The other piece was set in Vienna, but I remember nothing of Franz Kafka. I think Bron must have been the Wittgenstein sister, Margaret. I wondered if it was a Radio 4 play, but there seemed no fit there either.

Seems as if I was the only person listening