Close menu
BBC Scotland
Authors Live

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. Two of David's novels
    05:49
    Two of David's novels
  3. The local library
    06:12
    The local library
  4. Imagination
    04:48
    Imagination
  5. The power of words
    05:31
    The power of words
  6. Starting as a writer
    03:55
    Starting as a writer
  7. Q&A with David Almond
    05:15
    Q&A with David Almond
  8. More Q&A with David Almond
    06:48
    More Q&A with David Almond
  9. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  10. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  11. Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
    03:40
    Cat Hepburn – poetry reading
  12. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  13. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  14. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  15. 100 Words on Friendship
    01:14
    100 Words on Friendship
  16. Mental Health
    02:25
    Mental Health
  17. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  18. Wishes
    01:04
    Wishes
    19. Now playing
    Up next