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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 – starts with mafia bookmakers and state bureaucrats going toe to toe in a battle to own the future of gambling. -
Season Three: Catching The Codfather
A fishing tycoon is arrested in an elaborate sting operation, but claims he’s the real hero fighting back against the state. -
The Highway Teardown Tour
Two years ago, GBH News in Boston released the acclaimed podcast The Big Dig, about that city’s messy attempt to reckon with its own highways. Now host Ian Coss is taking the show on the road to do live tapings in different cities facing the same issue – in Seattle, Portland, Austin, Syracuse, Baltimore and more — looking at stories from the past, present and future. It’s called The Highway Teardown Tour.
Credits
Producer: Isabel Hibbard
Story Editor: Lacy Roberts
Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins
Contact us as thebigdig@wgbh.org.