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Stories are people
Alastair talks about how he loves stories about people
  1. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  12. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  13. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  14. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  15. Comics
    04:26
    Comics
  16. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  17. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  18. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  19. S is for Scots
    03:30
    S is for Scots
  20. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
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