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Being Children’s Laureate
Cressida talks about her time as Children’s Laureate
  1. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  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. There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
    03:53
    There’s Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah
  10. Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
    06:17
    Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
  11. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  12. Brian’s writing and favourite books
    04:33
    Brian’s writing and favourite books
  13. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  14. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
  15. Themes of The Infinite
    01:29
    Themes of The Infinite
  16. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  17. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
  18. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
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