Sir Mortimer and Magnus
The Genius of Flinders Petrie
S1 • E5 Oct 17, 1974 15m
First transmitted in 1974, Magnus Magnusson talks to Sir Mortimer Wheeler about Sir Flinders Petrie, the single-minded Egyptologist and eccentric who was Wheeler's friend for 20 years. Mortimer Wheeler claimed that he had known four geniuses in his life: "Winston Churchill, Sir Arthur Evans who discovered the Minoan civilisation, the painter Augustus John and Sir Flinders Petrie."
