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The Big Dig Season 4: Mitt & Ted, a healthcare story

The Big Dig Season 4: Mitt & Ted, a healthcare story

Written by: GBH News
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“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.


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.

Season 2: "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.


Season 3: "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.


Season 4: "Mitt & Ted, a healthcare story"

Mitt Romney and Ted Kennedy began their political journeys on opposite sides of the healthcare issue, and they ended once again on opposite sides, but for a brief period in the middle they worked together to pass a groundbreaking law – one that promised to finally transform the politics of American healthcare – the law known as Romneycare. So what brought this odd couple together, and what ultimately pulled Mitt and Ted apart?

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CREDITS:

Host & Creator: Ian Coss

Executive Producer: Devin Maverick Robins

Producer: Isabel Hibbard

Story Editor: Lacy Roberts

Contact us as thebigdig@wgbh.org

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Episodes
  • 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
    Show More Show Less
    5 mins
  • 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
    Show More Show Less
    54 mins
  • 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
    Show More Show Less
    52 mins
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