In memory of Tadeusz Mazowiecki

On Saturday the body of Tadeusz Mazowiecki lies in state in the chapel of the Presidential Palace and on Sunday, which has been declared a day of national mourning, Mazowiecki will be buried in his family grave in Laski near Warsaw, in a small cemetery close to the Institute of the Blind.

The funeral will be preceded by a mass at St John’s Cathedral in Warsaw.

Reporter Michal Kubicki talked to Anthony Kemp-Welch of the University of East Anglia, whose work Poland under Communism, has just been published in a Polish translation.