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The Black Flamingo
Dean gives us a flavour of The Black Flamingo with a reading from the opening chapter.
  1. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    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. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  10. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  11. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  12. Questions from schools
    08:14
    Questions from schools
  13. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  14. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  15. Where The Heart Should Be
    06:14
    Where The Heart Should Be
  16. School days and writing
    07:07
    School days and writing
  17. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  18. Working in Comics
    01:09
    Working in Comics
    19. Now playing
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