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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. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
  10. Mental Health
    02:25
    Mental Health
  11. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  12. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  13. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  14. Who is Josh Bell?
    01:03
    Who is Josh Bell?
  15. Reading from The Crossover
    04:17
    Reading from The Crossover
  16. UK schools vs American schools
    02:13
    UK schools vs American schools
  17. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  18. Studio questions
    03:22
    Studio questions
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