These days, you can bet on pretty much anything.
Some 40 years later, the bookies have finally caught up.
bookmakers at the time would offer the odd novelty bet-will it be a white Christmas? Will the royal baby be a boy or a girl?-but mostly they stuck with the standard fare: football, cricket, snooker. Produced by ElevenLabs and NOA, News Over Audio, using AI narration.Īs a young boy growing up in East London, Paul Krishnamurty and his friends would bet on pretty much everything: what song would come on the radio next, what show would be on TV that night, which of the two people walking ahead of them would reach the top of the hill first.