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How to Train Your Dragon reading
Cressida reads an extract from her most famous book
  1. How to Train Your Dragon reading
    04:38
    How to Train Your Dragon reading
  2. Scots
    01:14
    Scots
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  3. Writing in Scots
    01:54
    Writing in Scots
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  4. Minging!
    00:42
    Minging!
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  5. Taking on Roald Dahl
    02:40
    Taking on Roald Dahl
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  6. The right words
    02:22
    The right words
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  7. Quentin Blake
    00:42
    Quentin Blake
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  8. A reading in Scots
    02:35
    A reading in Scots
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  9. Questions
    01:21
    Questions
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  10. More questions
    03:14
    More questions
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  11. Even more questions
    03:39
    Even more questions
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  12. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  13. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
  14. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  15. Inspired by travelling
    14:41
    Inspired by travelling
  16. Favourite book
    00:45
    Favourite book
  17. The right words in the right order
    02:38
    The right words in the right order
  18. A sudden idea
    01:52
    A sudden idea
  19. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  20. Tom on his illustrations
    05:00
    Tom on his illustrations
  21. Writing historical fiction
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    Writing historical fiction
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