Podcast Episodes

All Politics is Local

Season 1 Episode 3

Part 3: The Big Dig needs federal funding. House Speaker Tip O’Neill is determined to get it; President Ronald Reagan is determined to stop it – sett…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Unholy Alliance

Season 1 Episode 2

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 h…

2 years, 4 months ago

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We Were Wrong

Season 1 Episode 1

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. Th…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Introducing: The Big Dig

Season 1

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 serie…

2 years, 5 months ago

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