I'm Neil McCarthy and just before this podcast starts I want to let you know that all 10 episodes of Death in Ice Valley

are now available to listen to and download. That's the whole series of what has already become our most popular ever new podcast.

I'm one of the presenters and I go on a journey through Europe and back in time to the Cold War.

It's an investigation into a life and a death.

If you haven't heard it yet, you can now listen to it all.

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Storing Jackpot, record-breaking ticket sales and it all comes down to this.

With prizes of nearly a billion dollars now up for grabs, who hasn't

dreamed of winning the lottery. A estimated 949.8 billion dollars.

I hope you have your power to make

what we do with all that money.

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And right after that we have 16. Here's Tom Raim. that money. But would hitting the jackpot really make us happier. You're listening

to the BBC World Service and I'm Mike Thompson with winning it big. Over the next half hour

I'll be meeting jackpot scoopers around the world in search of an answer to my

question. From a once penniless Ghanaian man who's now becoming a

movie mogul and an Arab Israeli who's using his millions to promote peace in the

Middle East to a former Canadian beauty queen who's giving it all

away but my journey begins in the United States.

My trail of global lottery winners has brought me here to the American town of Boise, Idaho.

This state has one of the country's smallest populations, but it's also home to one of the world's

biggest ever winners.

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