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Alastair’s influences
Alastair discusses the books and authors that inspired him
  1. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  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. Down Behind The Dustbin
    02:41
    Down Behind The Dustbin
  10. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  11. Characters
    01:58
    Characters
  12. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
    04:25
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 2
  13. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  14. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  15. Beginnings
    01:47
    Beginnings
  16. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  17. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  18. Questions
    04:03
    Questions
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