This is a message from A-Cast.

This is Sarah Kaneg, host and co-creator of the Serial Podcast.

I'll be in London on Thursday, October 3rd and Friday, October 4th

for the International Women's Podcast Festival in partnership with Spotify.

This year is the 10th anniversary of Serial and I'll be celebrating it at the

South Bank Center. I'm going to talk about how our show has stretched and changed

alongside this new industry and why so many women are so good at it. Again, that's

October 3rd and 4th. Tickets and more information are at festival.

Content is Queen.org. I hope you'll come.

It is April 29th 1826, as we settle down in the living room to peruse the latest edition of the Saturday

evening post.

Let's see here.

My lord, there's a lot to read. Lucky there's not much else to do with our leisure

hours here in the early 19th century. We glance across the columns and here's a new hotel opening

downtown, huh? There's fear of a drought, the usual agricultural news,

and oh look, a bank failure. Lovely. But just as we ready our fingers to turn the page, down there in the corner we spot an intriguing announcement.

Messers, Yates and McIntyre of New York City have the management of Mr Jefferson's lottery.

There are 11,480 chances at $10 each.

The books for subscription opened at Washington on Saturday, and it is said the tickets will be ready

for delivery in a very short time. A lottery? Chances for sale? For Mr. Jefferson?

Surely they can't mean the former president, Thomas Jefferson,

author of the Declaration of Independence and founding father of our nation.

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