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Middleton's Steve Coogan's tells Â鶹Éç Radio Manchester's Allan Beswick about meeting the Pope. He and Philomena Lee, whose story inspired the Oscar-nominated film Philomena, met his Holiness in Rome yesterday. The film, co-written and co-produced by Coogan, tells the story of Ms Lee's search for her son, who was forcibly adopted in Ireland in the 1950s. She recently launched The Philomena Project to help reunite families separated by adoption. Steve told Â鶹Éç Radio Manchester what it was like to meet the Pope.