In these days leading up to Easter, we look back seven years to the suffering and
death of the former Pope John Paul II on April 2nd 2005. A leader who, during his
long pontificate, moved from being the energetic, globe-trotting man the media dubbed
'God's Athlete' to a frail, sick figure symbolising the redemptive power of suffering
and death. Listen as Veronica Scarisbrick takes a closer look at those closing days
of John Paul's pontificate and the way that suffering had providentially shaped the
Polish Pope's life.....