Show_batch() TypeError

Working with a fake news dataset for NLP as in Lesson 3, when I run:

data_lm = TextLMDataBunch.load(path, 'tmp_lm')
data_lm.show_batch()

I get: TypeError: can’t convert np.ndarray of type numpy.object_.

TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-65-f346687833ba> in <module>
----> 1 data_lm.show_batch()

/opt/conda/envs/fastai/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fastai/text/data.py in show_batch(self, sep, ds_type, rows, max_len)
    224         from IPython.display import display, HTML
    225         dl = self.dl(ds_type)
--> 226         x,y = next(iter(dl))
    227         items = [['idx','text']]
    228         for i in range(rows):

/opt/conda/envs/fastai/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fastai/basic_data.py in __iter__(self)
     45     def __iter__(self):
     46         "Process and returns items from `DataLoader`."
---> 47         for b in self.dl:
     48             y = b[1][0] if is_listy(b[1]) else b[1]
     49             if not self.skip_size1 or y.size(0) != 1: yield self.proc_batch(b)

/opt/conda/envs/fastai/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fastai/text/data.py in __iter__(self)
     25             yield LongTensor(getattr(self.dataset, 'item')).unsqueeze(1),LongTensor([0])
     26         idx = np.random.permutation(len(self.dataset)) if self.shuffle else range(len(self.dataset))
---> 27         self.data = self.batchify(np.concatenate([self.dataset.x.items[i] for i in idx]))
     28         self.i,self.iter = 0,0
     29         while self.i < self.n-1 and self.iter<len(self):

/opt/conda/envs/fastai/lib/python3.6/site-packages/fastai/text/data.py in batchify(self, data)
     46         data = np.array(data[:nb*self.bs]).reshape(self.bs, -1).T
     47         if self.backwards: data=data[::-1].copy()
---> 48         return LongTensor(data)
     49 
     50     def get_batch(self, i:int, seq_len:int) -> Tuple[LongTensor, LongTensor]:

I get the same error running lr_find().

Anybody have suggestions?