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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. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  10. Questions
    04:03
    Questions
  11. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  12. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  13. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
  14. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  15. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
  16. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  17. School Questions
    05:51
    School Questions
  18. S is for Scots
    03:30
    S is for Scots
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