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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. Wizards of Once reading
    04:24
    Wizards of Once reading
  10. Konnie’s Favourite Character
    00:58
    Konnie’s Favourite Character
  11. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  12. Chocolate Cake
    07:56
    Chocolate Cake
  13. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  14. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  15. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
  16. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
  17. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  18. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
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