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Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
View More From The Gruffalo’s 20th Birthday
James tells us why he thinks there’s such enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic in schools.
  1. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    View More From The Gruffalo’s 20th Birthday
  2. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    View More From The Gruffalo’s 20th Birthday
  3. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    View More From The Gruffalo’s 20th Birthday
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    View More From The Gruffalo’s 20th Birthday
  5. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
    View More From The Gruffalo’s 20th Birthday
  6. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
    View More From The Gruffalo’s 20th Birthday
  7. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
    View More From The Gruffalo’s 20th Birthday
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    03:11
    Nadine Aisha Jassat – poetry reading
  9. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  10. Birdspotting Quiz
    05:46
    Birdspotting Quiz
  11. Chae is Dr Who
    05:39
    Chae is Dr Who
  12. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  13. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  14. Working in Comics
    01:09
    Working in Comics
  15. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  16. How to Draw Eric Dynamite
    08:33
    How to Draw Eric Dynamite
  17. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
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