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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. Acting and Writing
    05:49
    Acting and Writing
  10. Sport brings us together
    02:36
    Sport brings us together
  11. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  12. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  13. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  14. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  15. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  16. Konnie’s Favourite Character
    00:58
    Konnie’s Favourite Character
  17. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
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