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Q&A

May 6, 2010

Here is a very cute, real-life interview between a 12 -year old Joshua Littman, who has Asperger Syndrome, and his mother Sarah. You will enjoy this beautiful Mother-Son conversation. This conversation is a part of the movement called StoryCorps with a simple idea of sharing and recording life-stories of everyday people; basically a conversation between two people who are important to each other and preserve these stories for everyone to listen. Till now about 50,000 such stories have been recorded and is weekly broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition. Some of these stories will be made into animations and will be broadcast as a documentary on PBS during Aug-Sep 2010. The above Q&A is one of those animated stories. Here is synopsis by PBS about this animation as well us upcoming documentary:

Synopsis

The groundbreaking public radio project StoryCorps will enter into the world of television for the first time with a series of animated shorts that will air on POV later this summer. Q&A is a three-minute film featuring the audio recording of Joshua Littman, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome, interviewing his mother, Sarah. Joshua’s unique questions and Sarah’s loving, unguarded answers reveal a beautiful relationship that reminds us of the best — and the most challenging — parts of being a mother. (4 minutes)

Millions of Americans currently listen to StoryCorps award-winning radio broadcasts on NPR’s Morning Edition. By pairing the voices and stories from its radio segments with imaginative new animations, StoryCorps will produce six of its most beloved stories to follow long-form POV documentaries in August and September. Q&A will be broadcast after The Edge of Dreaming.

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