by John Arden
after Goethe's Goetz von Berlichinacn
Music by David Timson
David Suchet as lronhand
Through the glass of this medieval story. Goethe saw modern free man in chains; the princes absolute, stupid, surrounded by unscrupulous counsellors; the church stagnant: the law unjust and corrupt. Goetz Ironhand is a man who raises his iron fist against a decadent civilisation.
Adapted for radio and directed by MARTIN JENKINS
(David Suchet is an associate member of The Royal Shakespeare Company. Harold innocent is at the National Theatre, London. John Turner is in Evita at the Prince Edward Theatre, London)
During the interval 8.20-8.38' Vladimir Ashkenazy plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F, Op 54: record