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The Big Dig

The Big Dig

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“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


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Episodios
  • Introducing Season One: The Big Dig

    Introducing Season One: The Big Dig
    Sep 13 2023

    Can America still do big things? Can we build the ambitious projects we will need to survive climate change and improve our cities? This 9-part series looks for clues in the story of the Big Dig – one of the most notoriously troubled infrastructure projects in American history.

    The nine episode series is produced by GBH News.

    Credits:

    Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss

    Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins

    Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss

    Editor: Lacy Roberts

    Editorial Advisor: Stephanie Leydon

    Fact Checker: Lisa Wardle

    Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss

    Project Manager: Meiqian He
    Más Menos
    5 m
  • The Big Dig | 1. We Were Wrong

    The Big Dig | 1. We Were Wrong
    Sep 27 2023

    Part 1: There is a strange irony behind the Big Dig: the most expensive highway project ever built in America began with a man who hated highways. This is the story of Fred Salvucci’s journey into activism, during what is perhaps the most transformative anti-highway movement in the nation’s history.

    Credits:

    Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss

    Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins

    Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss

    Editor: Lacy Roberts

    Editorial Advisor: Stephanie Leydon

    Fact Checker: Lisa Wardle

    Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss

    Project Manager: Meiqian He
    Más Menos
    54 m
  • The Big Dig | 2. Unholy Alliance

    The Big Dig | 2. Unholy Alliance
    Sep 27 2023

    Part 2: In the early 1970s a radical idea took shape: tearing down Boston’s elevated downtown highway, and rebuilding it underground. But making it happen will require a grand bargain between two competing tunnel projects, and between bitter enemies.

    Credits:

    Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss

    Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins

    Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss

    Editor: Lacy Roberts

    Editorial Advisor: Stephanie Leydon

    Fact Checker: Lisa Wardle

    Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss

    Project Manager: Meiqian He
    Más Menos
    52 m
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Very well researched and presented. Each episode was entertaining and kept me interest. Great story telling and pace. I highly recommend even if you’ve never heard of The Big Dig.

Decades of American history through the lens of a single project

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