This is The Guardian.

Hello, John Harris here. I hope you enjoy your Christmas break. The politics with the UK team

are on holiday, but we didn't want to leave you without something to listen to. This episode is

very special to me because it's an interview I did with

our sister podcast today in Focus about my memoir, Maybe I'm Amazed, a story of love and connection

in 10 songs. It's about how the music of the Beatles, craftwork, Amy Winehouse, and many more

have shaped my relationship with James, my autistic son. Politics Weekly UK will be back on Monday the 5th of January,

but for now, I hope you enjoy listening to this.

James was, it'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 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

teletubbies, 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.

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. I felt quite

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