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The words The Big Dig are shown on an image of the Boston skyline behind the River Charles.

“This is a town where there are three pastimes: politics, sports and revenge.” The town is Boston.

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.

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    Season 1: 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.
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    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.

Credits
Producer: Isabel Hibbard
Story Editor: Lacy Roberts
Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins

Contact us as thebigdig@wgbh.org.