Conclave: Electing Pope Francis's successor
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🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, cardinals from across the world will now descend on Vatican City in Rome to choose the next Pope. The Oscar-nominated film Conclave dramatised the political machinations and backstabbing involved in choosing a successor - so, with incriminating dossiers and secret plots, is fact about to mirror fiction?
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Guest: Tom Kington, correspondent in Rome for The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Sam Chantarasak.
Further reading: Pope Francis's legacy: Loved by millions, hated by the old guard
Clips: ABC News, Euronews, CBS News, CNN, Conclave/Focus Features.
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| 0:58.2 | I'm Manvine Rana. |
| 1:04.1 | The announcement, when it came, was a somber one. |
| 1:10.7 | A cardinal flanked by three others, all dressed in black, |
| 1:14.7 | lined up to tell the world the Pope was dead. |
| 1:19.2 | Carisysimi fraternity and sorelle, |
| 1:23.4 | with profound dolor, |
| 1:26.2 | I have anunciar the |
| 1:28.3 | death of our Saint-Padre Francesco. |
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