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In 1852 Charles Dickens commented on a new phenomenon, "Presto! Betting-shops spring up in every street!". Several hundred of these back-streets shops had suddenly appeared in London and hundreds more opened across the country as railways and the electric telegraph made off-course betting possible. At Lingfield Park Racecourse, Jonathan Freedland and Paul Leyland of Regulus Partners take the long view of gambling and new technologies as they look at how gambling is changing today, in the era of fixed-odds betting terminals, smartphones and in-play betting. First broadcast on The Long View, 22 January 2019.