10. Mother and son

John Elkann has dragged Fiat back to profitability and a global scale even his grandfather couldn’t match, but his inheritance dispute with his own mother is becoming much more than a distraction. The investigation into his grandfather Gianni’s will has now prompted a criminal inquiry. And a bombshell piece of new evidence could threaten John’s control over the dynasty. 

Presenter: Sofia Bettiza
Series producer: Simon Tulett
Producer: Bob Howard
Fact-checkers: Adriana Urbano and Randa Darwish
Music: Thomas Ross Fitzsimons
Sound engineer: Richard Hannaford
Series editor: Matt Willis
With special thanks to Jennifer Clark, Michele Masneri, Rachel Sanderson, Andrea Colli, and, also, Octavia Woodward.
Senior commissioning producer: Sarah Green
Commissioning editor: Jon Manel

Inheritance is a BBC Long Form Audio production