Podcast Episodes

The Big Dig | 9. Hearts and Minds

Season 1 Episode 9

Part 9: It’s been fifty years since the Big Dig was first conceived, thirty years since construction began, more than a dozen years since it was comp…

2 years, 7 months ago

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The Big Dig | 8. I Want Justice for What Happened

Season 1 Episode 8

Part 8: Just as the project turns the corner towards completion, its entire legacy becomes clouded. The tunnels are leaking, concrete suppliers are b…

2 years, 8 months ago

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The Big Dig | 7. The Turnpike Revolt

Season 1 Episode 7

Part 7: By the year 2000, the Big Dig has passed through many hands, but in its final years a power struggle spills into public view – over who will …

2 years, 8 months ago

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The Big Dig | 6. The Up Down Charts

Season 1 Episode 6

Part 6: As work progresses through the 1990s and the tunnels take shape, the true cost of the Big Dig remains unknown to the public, until a series o…

2 years, 8 months ago

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The Big Dig | 5. Hatchet Man vs. the 800 Pound Gorilla

Season 1 Episode 5

Part 5: In 1991, the Big Dig is handed off to a new leader – the brash, aggressive, hatchet-toting Jim Kerasiotes – who makes it clear he plans to sh…

2 years, 8 months ago

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The Big Dig | 4. The Double Cross

Season 1 Episode 4

Part 4: The project faces an unexpected challenge on the home front: resistance from local environmentalists and residents – the very people the Big …

2 years, 8 months ago

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The Big Dig | 3. 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, 9 months ago

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The Big Dig | 2. 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, 9 months ago

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The Big Dig | 1. 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, 9 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, 9 months ago

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