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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  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. Keeping Up With Michael
    01:39
    Keeping Up With Michael
  10. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  11. Social media and influencers
    03:10
    Social media and influencers
  12. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
  13. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
  14. A question about Charlie and Lola
    01:44
    A question about Charlie and Lola
  15. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  16. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
  17. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  18. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
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