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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. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  10. S is for Scots
    03:30
    S is for Scots
  11. Rachel’s books and inspirations
    06:29
    Rachel’s books and inspirations
  12. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  13. Bumble and Snug reading
    04:07
    Bumble and Snug reading
  14. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  15. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  16. Inspired by travelling
    14:41
    Inspired by travelling
  17. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  18. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
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