The Polish Pontiff: suffering never crushed his love for life

It was to Poland that John Paul II dedicated the last words of his spiritual testament. Offering us perhaps an insight into the more human side of Karol Wojtyla whose suffering never crushed his love for life.

Join Veronica Scarisbrick and her guests as she steps back in time and brings you echoes of this Polish Pontiff's early days as a child, when he went on on pilgrimage with his father to pray at a Marian shrine nestling in the Beskidy hills. Or again when he played table tennis, acted or went dancing . But also years later as pope, unusual moments during his summer holidays in Castelgandolfo, when he met with peripatetic Polish intellectuals to chat of philosophy or chaos theory ...


Among the guests Veronica speaks to in this programme are childhood friend, Jerzy Kluger and cosmologist Professor Michael Heller.

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