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Alastair’s influences
Alastair discusses the books and authors that inspired him
  1. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  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. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  10. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  11. Dealing with Racists
    01:11
    Dealing with Racists
  12. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
    04:25
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
  13. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  14. Themes of books
    03:14
    Themes of books
  15. Boogie Woogie Buggy
    01:41
    Boogie Woogie Buggy
  16. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  17. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  18. Writing – when why how?
    09:26
    Writing – when why how?
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