A summer road trip suggestion
The 7
The Washington Post
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
You can catch up on today's seven most important and interesting stories by checking out The 7 newsletter on this Juneteenth holiday. We'll be back with our regular show on Thursday. In the meantime, we're bringing you an idea for a summer road trip listen. "The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop" from The Washington Post just won a Peabody award and is a compelling investigation seven-part series into how the U.S. fits into a 40-year-old Caribbean mystery.
Grenada’s Black revolutionary leader, Maurice Bishop, was executed in a coup in 1983, along with seven others. The whereabouts of their remains are unknown. “The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop” delves into the revolutionary history of Grenada, why the missing remains still matter and the role the U.S. government played in shaping the fate of the island nation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Hannah. If you missed my note at the end of Tuesday's show, the podcast team is off today for the Juneteenth holiday. |
| 0:08.0 | We'll be back with the 7 tomorrow morning. |
| 0:10.0 | But I wanted to let you know about an investigative podcast you may have missed when it was released at the end of last year. |
| 0:16.0 | It's called the empty grave of comrade Bishop, and it just won a Peabody Award. |
| 0:21.0 | My colleague Martine Powers is the host of this series. |
| 0:24.8 | The empty grave of comrade Bishop is about a 40-year-old |
| 0:28.2 | Cold War mystery that happened on a Caribbean island. |
| 0:31.7 | I'm going to play the first episode for you and then you can |
| 0:34.0 | look it up and keep listening to the rest of the series. And this is a great pick |
| 0:38.0 | for your summer road trip playlist. Okay, here you go and I'll catch you back here tomorrow. |
| 0:43.2 | So I just want to ask to be clear. |
| 0:46.2 | Sure. |
| 0:47.2 | Did you ever see the body of Maurice Bishop? |
| 0:51.0 | No. |
| 0:52.0 | You're sure. |
| 0:53.0 | Absolutely. |
| 0:54.0 | Did you see Maurice Bishop's body? |
| 0:58.0 | No, I didn't see his body. Not at all. |
| 1:04.0 | Not at all. |
| 1:05.0 | Did you see the bodies of anyone else who... |
| 1:07.0 | I didn't see the bodies of anyone else. |
| 1:10.0 | Do you remember speaking with any of the people who were involved in looking for |
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