My hunt for the Gutenberg – the rare book that solved a family mystery
Lives Less Ordinary
BBC
4.6 • 814 Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Michael Visontay thought he knew everything about his family’s past, but there was one shadowy character he was aching to know more about: his grandfather’s second wife, Olga. As Michael went through old papers, he uncovered a trail to the world’s most coveted book, the Gutenberg Bible – a rare antique printed in the 1450s – and the scandalous scheme to break it up.
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| 0:30.4 | Michael, I've heard that you're a little bit of a hoarder. |
| 0:33.5 | What sorts of things do you like to collect? |
| 0:36.0 | Well, I collect a lot of strange things. |
| 0:40.4 | Some of them are football paraphernalia. |
| 0:43.5 | So I've collected relics from World Cups. |
| 0:46.8 | I do collect also and keep a lot of family documents that other people wouldn't. |
| 0:52.8 | So I have from my father records of my parents' wedding. |
| 0:58.5 | Rental car receipts. |
| 1:00.1 | Rental car receipts. |
| 1:02.0 | The rental car receipt. |
| 1:08.1 | Hey, I'm Asi Fuchs. And on this episode of Lives Less Ordinary, I'm talking to Michael Vissante, a writer, journalist, and self-confessed hoarder of family documents and other ephemera. |
| 1:22.8 | Where they went for their honeymoon, the diaries of what they did on their cruises. So I'd like to hold |
| 1:29.2 | on to things in history. |
| 1:34.2 | There is one artifact that Michael will likely never own, but has spent the last five years |
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