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Drama on 4: Holy Father

Holy Father

21/04/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Holy Father

In the year 2020, cardinals from all over the world gather in Rome to elect a new pontiff.

By Mark Lawson. In the year 2020, 120 cardinals have gathered in the Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. And for the first time since 1159 he might just be English.

It is the near future in the Vatican. A charismatic Pope has died with his radical reforming mission incomplete. As the Cardinals gather in the Vatican for the late pontiff's funeral and then the secret conclave that will elect his successor, two men are considered the most likely papabili. One - Cardinal Brendan Faber - would become the first English Pope since Nicolas Brakespeare; the other - Cardinal Dieudonne Simouri - would be the first African pontiff. Faber represents the liberal reformist wing of the Catholic Church; Simouri the conservative, counter-reformist section. They have become symbolic of a struggle for the soul of the church. However, on the eve of the conclave, Faber receives an unexpected visitor in Rome.

Writer ..... Mark Lawson
Producer ..... Eoin O'Callaghan
Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan.

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