The Works
The Secret Life of the Pope
S2 • E12 Dec 27, 1996
Pope John Paul II is considered by many to be the most conservative pope of this century. Fifty years ago, however, he was better known as the subversive playwright, actor and poet Karol Wojtyla. Mark Lawson journeys into the heart of Roman Catholic Poland to meet the director of Brother of Our Lord, a film based on one of Wojtyla's plays, and he talks to old friends of the radical writer who would later become pope.
