Joshua Littman Provides Insight into Asperger's Syndrome on POV

Since 2003, StoryCorps has been recording and preserving the voices of everyday people, one conversation at a time. For the past five years, the producers have shared one of these stories each week on NPR. Now, StoryCorps brings its Peabody Award-winning storytelling to public television in collaboration with POV (Point of View). StoryCorps' new animated shorts feature some of the series' best-loved radio stories.

Animated by Mike and Tim Rauch and using original StoryCorps audio recordings, these short films capture the intimate and emotionally resonant conversations that have become renowned as NPR's quintessential "driveway moments." The series of six documentary shorts will take viewers from an intimate conversation between a boy with Asperger's syndrome and his mom, to a Brooklyn couple remembering how they fell in love and recognizing that they now must learn to let go, and to several other memorable places in between.

The StoryCorps documentary animations will air this summer with selected feature-length films starting on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. Additional StoryCorps films will be presented on POV in 2011, as well as being presented as standalone films in partnership with PBA 30 (Public Broadcasting Atlanta). The StoryCorps collection is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. For trailers, press releases and downloadable art, visit www.pbs.org/pov/pressroom.

POV, now in its 23rd season, airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.). POV continues weekly through Sept. 21 and concludes with a special broadcast on Oct. 5. American television's longest-running independent documentary series, POV is the recipient of a Special Emmy for Excellence in Television Documentary Filmmaking.

Tuesday, Aug. 24, airing with "The Edge of Dreaming":

·       Q&A - Joshua Littman, a 12-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, interviews his mother, Sarah. Joshua's unique questions and Sarah's loving, unguarded answers reveal a relationship that reminds us of the best -- and the most challenging -- parts of being a mother.

About StoryCorps:

The first StoryBooth opened on Oct. 23, 2003, in New York City's Grand Central Terminal. In May 2008 the new flagship StoryBooth opened in Lower Manhattan'sFoley Square. StoryCorps currently operates StoryBooths in New York City, San Francisco and Atlanta. Two StoryCorps MobileBooths travel across the country, partnering with local public radio stations in various cities for one month at a time. StoryCorps' first two MobileBooths hit the road on May 19, 2005.