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How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  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. Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
    01:05
    Would any of your characters make a good therapet?
  10. Scrapbooks and plans
    05:43
    Scrapbooks and plans
  11. Authors Live with Ross Sayers
    31:15
    Authors Live with Ross Sayers
  12. Reading of The River
    04:08
    Reading of The River
  13. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  14. Rachel’s books and inspirations
    06:29
    Rachel’s books and inspirations
  15. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  16. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  17. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  18. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
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