Busman's Holiday

In the 1990s, Arch Coal began mountaintop removal mining in a corner of West Virginia called Pigeonroost Hollow. There used to be dozens of houses in the area, but within a few years there was just one. It belonged to Jimmy Weekley.This story originally aired on NPR in 2011. Lear ...  Show more

This week we're sharing a story from the audio magazine Signal Hill.The story, "What's Inside the Moon," is about the poet Kenneth Koch and a group of elementary school students he taught to write poetry in the 1960s. Half a century later, producer Jess Shane tracked down the stu ...  Show more

Going on holiday to do your job? What's it got to do with driving a bus? 

The wheels on the bus go round and round 

A simple bus trip took a turn for the scary... as most bus trips do! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 

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