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The real world and the fictional world
How a rain forest in Wales provided inspiration for Kiran’s fictional world.
  1. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  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. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  10. Toxic Relationships
    04:42
    Toxic Relationships
  11. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  12. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  13. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  14. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  15. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
  16. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  17. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  18. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
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