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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  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. Drawing Fruit and Veg
    04:16
    Drawing Fruit and Veg
  10. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  11. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  12. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  13. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  14. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  15. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  16. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  17. Where The Heart Should Be
    06:14
    Where The Heart Should Be
  18. 100 Words on Friendship
    01:14
    100 Words on Friendship
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