The National Lottery Draws since been dropped from BBC iPlayer as of 8 April 2017, and since 1 April 2016, draws are now broadcast exclusively on their official channel on YouTube. On 12 April 2018, it was announced that the televised Saturday night draw would be aired on ITV with Stephen Mulhern as the new host, being renamed to "The National Lottery Results". The first show was presented by Noel Edmonds. After the first show, it was either co-presented by Anthea Turner and Gordon Kennedy, or Bob Monkhouse, all of them assisted by the psychic Mystic Meg. Carol Vorderman had a segment during the
The Lottery in Babylon The Lottery in Babylon "The Lottery in Babylon" (or "The Babylon Lottery"; original Spanish "La lotería en Babilonia") is a fantasy short story by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges. It first appeared in 1941 in the literary magazine "Sur", and was then included in the 1941 collection "The Garden of Forking Paths" ("El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan"), which in turn became the part one of "Ficciones" (1944). The story describes a mythical Babylon in which all activities are dictated by an all-encompassing lottery, a metaphor for the role of chance in one's life. Initially, the lottery was