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The World of the Crossing
Manjeet explains the origins of her novel in verse, The Crossing.
  1. The World of the Crossing
    08:03
    The World of the Crossing
  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. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
  10. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  11. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  12. A question about Charlie and Lola
    01:44
    A question about Charlie and Lola
  13. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  14. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  15. Finding the bear
    01:06
    Finding the bear
  16. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  17. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
  18. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
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