Een podcast over de lotto in Amerika, is dat interessant? Ja! Journalist Ian Coss wilde weten hoe het kan dat er in de staat Massachusetts gemiddeld duizend dollar per volwassene per jaar aan gokken wordt uitgegeven en ging op onderzoek uit. Het resultaat is Scratch & Win, een zeer goed gedocumenteerde en heerlijk lange serie. Coss vertelt de geschiedenis van de legale loterijen in Amerika. We volgen de opkomst van de loterij in de jaren zeventig, waarbij onder meer stil wordt gestaan bij de maffia, de uitvinder van de kraskaart en wat de katholieke kerk ermee te maken heeft. Vandaag de dag is de vraag: moet de staat zich überhaupt bezighouden met gokpraktijken?
“This is a town where there are three pastimes: politics, sports and revenge.”
Seemingly dry topics become gripping political dramas in this Peabody Award winning show from creator Ian Coss and GBH News. Each season of “The Big Dig” uncovers a different facet of society – infrastructure, gambling, food, healthcare – together the pieces connect to tell the story of modern America.
Season One: “The Big Dig”
The highway project known as “The Big Dig” is infamous – a shorthand for government failure – but it all started as one engineer’s dream to correct the wrongs of the past, and its legacy is far from simple.
Season Two: “Scratch & Win”
America’s most successful state lottery – and its greatest innovation, the scratch ticket – all starts with mafia bookmakers and state bureaucrats going toe to toe in a battle to own the future of gambling.
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CREDITS
Producer: Isabel Hibbard
Story Editor: Lacy Roberts
Host & Creator: Ian Coss
Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins
Contact us as thebigdig@wgbh.org
NEW name. NEW art. NEW season. NEW events. NEW mailing list. Listen for all the updates and a preview of what’s to come.
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*LIVE EVENT* in Portland, OR: https://literary-arts.org/event/opb-the-big-dig/
