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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. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  10. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  11. Three pointers for writers
    01:10
    Three pointers for writers
  12. McLean Primary eco projects
    02:44
    McLean Primary eco projects
  13. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  14. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  15. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
  16. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  17. Books and confidence
    01:08
    Books and confidence
  18. Questions from schools
    06:06
    Questions from schools
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