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Scratch & Win

Scratch & Win

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Never in American history has it been so easy to gamble, legally at least. We’ve got casinos, sports betting, online poker, keno — but it was all made possible by state lotteries, which brought gambling out of the shadows and into the public square — into the government itself.

“Scratch & Win” follows the unlikely rise of America’s most successful lottery. We begin in 1970s Boston, with state bureaucrats going toe to toe with mafia bookmakers, and each other, as they struggle to launch the state's greatest innovation: the scratch ticket. But the story reaches all the way to the present moment. How do we feel about the gambling industry that lotteries helped summon into being? And should the state be in this business at all?

“Scratch & Win” is made by the Peabody Award-winning team behind “The Big Dig,” produced by GBH News and distributed by PRX.

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Credits:

Host and scriptwriter: Ian Coss

Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins

Producers: Isabel Hibbard and Ian Coss

Story Editor: Lacy Roberts

Editorial Advisor: Jen McKim

Fact Checkers: Ryan Alderman and Isabel Hibbard

Scoring and Music Supervision: Ian Coss

Graphic Design: Bill Miller

Project Manager: Meiqian He


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    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
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  • Part 1: We Were Wrong

    Part 1: We Were Wrong
    Sep 27 2023

    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
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    54 m
  • Part 2: Unholy Alliance

    Part 2: Unholy Alliance
    Sep 27 2023

    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
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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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