Busman’s Holiday

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

The story of William Cimillo, a New York City bus driver who snapped one day in 1947 and went on a 1,300 mile detour with his bus… to Florida.

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0:00.0	Radio Topia from PRX.
0:06.1	From PRX's Radiotopia, this is Radio Diaries. I'm Joe Richmond.
0:10.4	Today we have a story we originally produced for this American life.
0:13.8	It's called Busman's Holiday.
0:15.7	And it begins in 1947.
0:17.9	That's when a New York City bus driver named William Simillo became, for a time, the most
0:22.4	famous bus driver in the country.
0:25.0	I read a bunch of accounts of what he did, but my favorite is from this TV interview.
0:29.5	It unfolds kind of slowly, but that's kind of why it's so great.
0:33.2	Pepsi Cola presents Faye Emerson.
0:36.9	Hello again.
0:38.4	Do you ever think of getting away from it all?
0:40.5	A bus driver had that same feeling, and he made every headline in the country.
0:45.1	So I asked him to come up here and tell us all about it.
0:48.1	Hello, Bill.
0:49.2	Pleasure to meet you.
0:50.0	Thank you.
0:50.4	Come on.
0:50.8	Sit down on a little bit of me.
0:51.9	Hey, Charlie, got a couple of Pepsi's here for us?
0:54.0	Pepsi's right here. Thanks, Charlie. Yes, ma'am.
0:56.8	Let me stop this for a second and describe what's happening. It's black and white footage.
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