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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  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. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  10. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  11. How to draw a cheetah
    07:21
    How to draw a cheetah
  12. Hercules Song
    01:56
    Hercules Song
  13. Newton Farm Questions
    05:46
    Newton Farm Questions
  14. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  15. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  16. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  17. UK schools vs American schools
    02:13
    UK schools vs American schools
  18. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
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