Close menu
BBC Scotland
Authors Live

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
The Black Flamingo
Dean gives us a flavour of The Black Flamingo with a reading from the opening chapter.
  1. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    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. Introducing Sav Akyuz
    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
  10. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  11. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  12. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
  13. How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
    02:32
    How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
  14. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  15. How to Draw Granville's Body
    07:54
    How to Draw Granville's Body
  16. Writing Fiction
    01:29
    Writing Fiction
  17. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  18. Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
    05:44
    Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg
    19. Now playing
    Up next