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.