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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. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  10. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
  11. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
  12. The poetry community
    01:45
    The poetry community
  13. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  14. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  15. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  16. Relationship Behaviour
    01:57
    Relationship Behaviour
  17. Joyful Poetry
    00:53
    Joyful Poetry
  18. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
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