Fragments of a Great Confession The first of five programmes celebrating the 250th anniversary of Germany's greatest poet and writer, Goethe, leading up to Radio 3's
Weimar Weekend on 28 and 29 August. 1: A Man of His Times. Professor
Nicholas Boyle , author of the definitive biography of Goethe, sets Goethe's career in the context of the Germany in which he lived, beginning with his origins as a promising young lawyer in Frankfurt, before his defining move at the age of 26 to the autocratic duchy of Weimar.
Producer Martin Cotton