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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. Draw the Light Ship
    05:16
    Draw the Light Ship
  10. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  11. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  12. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  13. Social media and influencers
    03:10
    Social media and influencers
  14. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  15. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
  16. There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
    03:53
    There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
  17. Books and confidence
    01:08
    Books and confidence
  18. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
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