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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing 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. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  10. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  11. Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
    16:05
    Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
  12. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  13. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  14. Bear Moves
    02:28
    Bear Moves
  15. Drawing Fruit and Veg
    04:16
    Drawing Fruit and Veg
  16. Poetry is everywhere
    14:55
    Poetry is everywhere
  17. Forrester High's 2048 Predictions
    02:35
    Forrester High's 2048 Predictions
  18. School days and writing
    07:07
    School days and writing
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