For four extraordinary days, Britain's television screens were filled with Catholic faces. Suddenly many of us realised we knew surprisingly little about our five million fellow citizens who happened also to be Catholics. Who exactly were they? What were their preoccupations? Were they somehow different from the rest of us? John Paul 's People answers some of those questions by considering the ideas and the lives of some individual Catholics. Gerald Priestland talks, among others, to Britain's premier Catholic, The Duke of Norfolk and his family, to the naval petty-officer-turned-student-priest, to the Irish nun who runs a hospice for the dying, and to Cardinal Hume The programme also reveals the remarkably heated controversy between the traditionalist old guard, yearning for the Latin Mass and all the old certainties, and the progressive new guard with their folk masses and liberal moral attitudes. It shows something of life in a tough inner city parish as well as in the remotely beautiful, unchanging Catholic, Isle of Eriskay. Film cameramen GODFREY JOHNSON JOHN MCGLASHAN Editor GRAHAM SHIPHAN Producer JENNY BARRACLOUGU
