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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. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  10. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  11. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
  12. Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
    04:56
    Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
  13. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  14. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  15. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
  16. More Cookie Books
    01:04
    More Cookie Books
  17. Introducing Sav Akyuz
    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
  18. Poetry is everywhere
    14:55
    Poetry is everywhere
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