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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  2. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  3. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  5. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  6. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  7. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  8. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  9. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  10. Newton Farm Questions
    05:46
    Newton Farm Questions
  11. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  12. What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
    01:13
    What inspired Ross MacKenzie to continue with his series of books?
  13. Scottish words and questions from schools
    08:09
    Scottish words and questions from schools
  14. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  15. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  16. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  17. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  18. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
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