New BBC Panorama show probes Pope John Paul II's relationships with women

 A BBC documentary will explore the possibility that Pope John Paul II fell in love with a married Polish-American academic.Mailonline reports.

The latest Panorama programme will delve into the late Pope's relationship with women and is thought to have discovered a stack of letters sent between him and Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka.

Tymieniecka worked with the Pontiff in the 1970s, when he was still known as Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, on his philosophical treatise The Acting Person.

Monday night's show will investigate claims the Pope and Tymieniecka engaged in a four-year correspondence during the period in which they were working together on the book, when they were both in their fifties.