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Rolling the dice: Has COVID-19 caused a gambling pandemic?

Rolling the dice: Has COVID-19 caused a gambling pandemic?

FromSky News Daily


Rolling the dice: Has COVID-19 caused a gambling pandemic?

FromSky News Daily

ratings:
Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Mar 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When the doors to betting shops were closed in lockdown, many asked what this would mean for the UK’s gambling habit.The pandemic has revealed many things we didn’t know before about how much we bet, and how, in an increasingly digital world, some have moved deeper into crypto-gambling on the “black market”. In this episode of the Sky News Daily podcast, host Jonathan Samuels is joined by Sarah Grant, a recovering gambling addict; Dr Heather Wardle, a researcher from the University of Glasgow and Tony Marini, an addiction therapist from the Castle Craig treatment centre.
Released:
Mar 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Sky News Daily podcast with Niall Paterson brings you a deeper look at the big stories. We use Sky News correspondents for the best eyewitness reporting, original stories and expertise to make sense of the world.Published every weekday.