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Roberto Calvi, a man guarding a dangerous secret about the Vatican Bank’s criminal activities, sends a threatening letter to the Pope. A week later on June 17th, 1982, he’s found dead hanging from a bridge in London. British police call it suicide, but questions and conspiracies swirl. Forty years on, lawyer Nicolo Majnoni gets a tip there might be more to the story and embarks on a quest to uncover the truth. Was Roberto Calvi, A.K.A. God’s Banker, killed? And if so, by whom?

Shadow Kingdom: God’s Banker is a production of Campside Media and Crooked Media. Each season starts with a crime, and as the layers are peeled back to find out who or what is at the center of it, a larger system at play is revealed.

You can also listen to Shadow Kingdom in Italian! It’s full of original reporting in Italian, with unabridged versions of interviews with Italian guests. We’re really excited to tell the story in it’s native tongue, you can find it here at Il Banchiere di Dio or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Host, Reporter, & Executive Producer: Nicolo Majnoni
Additional Reporter: Simona Zecchi
Writer: Nicolò Majnoni, with editorial support from Guido Guenci
Lead Producer: Joe Hawthorne, Giovanna Surace
Managing Producer: Ashleyanne Krigbaum
Production Supervisor: Andrea Maltagliati
Story Editor: Tracy Samuelson
Fact Checking: Zoe Sullivan
Sound Designer: Mark Mcadam
Original Music: Garrett Tiedemann
Location Sound: Antonio Mezzadra, Veronica Buscarini
Post-Production: Antonio Mezzadra
Studio Engineer: Yi-Wen Lai-Tremewan 
Theme Song Composer: Nicolo Majnoni, Mark Mcadam
Voice Actors: David Eichler, Ferrante Cosma, Andrea Bianchi, Michele Teodori, Roberto Majnoni, Clara Majnoni
Field Recorders: Justin Trieger, Jonathan Zenti, Pete Shev, Jonathan Groubert, Joanna Broder

For Campside Media:
Executive Producers: Josh Dean, Vanessa Grigoriadis, Adam Hoff, Matt Shaer
Operations Team: Doug Slawin, Ashley Warren, Sabina Mara, Emma Simonoff, Destiny Dingle, David Eichler

For Crooked Media:
Executive Producers: Sarah Geismer, Katie Long, Alison Falzetta


Special Thanks to:
Johnny Kaufman
Anthony Pucillo
Philip Willan
Mario Platero
Jon Favreau
Strauss Zelnick
Matt Lieber
Alex Blumberg
Avery Trufleman
George Wallbank
Radio Radicale for granting access to its audio archive