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Stories and puzzles
Alastair talks about how he first got into writing books
  1. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  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. Don't Kvetch
    01:55
    Don't Kvetch
  10. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
  11. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  12. Rachel’s books and inspirations
    06:29
    Rachel’s books and inspirations
  13. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  14. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
  15. Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
    05:25
    Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
  16. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
  17. Questions from schools
    07:40
    Questions from schools
  18. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
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