Hey, it's Coco here.

And Nish, and we're excited to share with you the newest limited series from crooked media and campside media that we know your love, Shadow Kingdom, God's Banker.

Shadow Kingdom is a story about one of the most shocking cases of corruption and greatest mysteries in European history.

This is the story of how the Vatican Bank became a money laundering machine

and how God's banker, the man who controlled it all and knew too much, ended up hanging

under a bridge in London. So I love the sound of this show because it reopens an infamous scandal,

a Vatican scandal with new investigative reporting. So it uncovers the shadowy world of corruption

behind the most powerful

religious organisation in the world. Also, just as a true crime fan, it has all those

spicy touch points, you know, you've got the Sicilian Mafia, you've got the Freemasons and a

secret far right chapter that feels very important to know about in the current political climate.

So, yeah, it's a fascinating deep dive into networks of power, and many of which still shape

the world today.

Here is the first episode of the series.

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There's a scene that I have been obsessed with for the past several years.

It took place on a cool summer night in Austria in 1982.

Italian banker Roberto Calvi sat in front of a cold fireplace. For him, it was a rare moment of stillness in what had been a full week on the run. His designer suit was disheveled.

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