This is The Guardian.

Today, how music bridged a gap between a father and his autistic son.

James was, he's about to turn three.

We went to Pembroke Castle.

I remember taking James to the top of one of the towers,

and as anyone would say, what can you see, James?

Can you see all the little cars and the little people?

And in response, he was just reciting scripts from kids' TV.

In a very sort of low whisper, he'd say, time for tellytobies, time for teletubes.

This is John Harris.

Many of you might know him as the presenter of our sister podcast, Politics Weekly.

He's talking about his son, James.

And that sort of scripting got even more pronounced at night.

I remember going up when he was in bed,

and he was really kind of intensely scripting,

coming out like a human tape recorder,

with these things that he heard on the TV.

And I couldn't sort of pull him out of it.

I remember kind of saying,

I'm here now, you're okay,

and he wasn't really registering that I was there.

Yeah.

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