Welcome to Murder Mile, a true crime podcast, an audio-guided walk,

featuring many of London's untold, unsolved, and long-forgotten murders, all set within London's West End.

Today's episode is about Roberto Calvi, a wealthy Italian financier with influential connections

so deep within the Vatican that he was dubbed God's banker. And yet, so complex is the mystery surrounding his life

that even today, it is still uncertain whether his death was a suicide or a murder.

Murdomal is researched using original sources. It contains moments of satire, shock and grisly details, and as a dramatization of

the real events, it may also feature loud and realistic sounds, so that, no matter where you

listen to this podcast, you'll feel like you're actually there. My name is Michael. I am your

tour guide, and this is Murder Mile.

Episode 70, Roberto Calvi, The Death of God's Banker.

Today, I'm standing under Blackfriars Bridge, WC2.

A raw iron structure constructed in 1869, which stretches 105 feet wide and 923 feet long, and is one of nine bridges over the tidal stretch of the River Thames, between

the Tower of London and the Houses of Parliament.

Situated two miles east of Soho, half a mile south of the Old Bailey, and just a hop

from the Oxo Tower and the Tate Modern, Blackfriars was named after the Dominican Monastery

which stood near this site between 1276 and 1538, and with Black being a reference

to the habits worn by the monks, and Friar, deriving from the French word Frere meaning brothers,

hence this became Black Friars Bridge. Following the building's destruction

during the desolusion of the monasteries, just so that bloated, pasty and undercooked

chicken mcnugget look-alike, Henry VIII, could play a barbarically realistic version of Shagmary

Kill. Blackfriars is no longer a place of religious significance.

Instead, 100 feet east is Blackfriars station,

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