Insights into the character of Blessed Pope John Paul
This year, the Church has a new feast day after October the 22nd was chosen
as the date on which we remember the figure of Blessed Pope John Paul II who was installed
as pope on this date in 1978. We look back at the personality of the man Karol Wojtyla,
with the help of George Weigel, his friend and biographer and John Allen, one of the
world's leading commentators on Vatican Affairs.
Listen to this programme
produced and presented by Susy Hodges that includes many sound clips of the late pope's
voice: