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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. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  10. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  11. How to draw a blobfish
    03:35
    How to draw a blobfish
  12. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
  13. A monster quiz
    08:19
    A monster quiz
  14. Questions from schools
    05:58
    Questions from schools
  15. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  16. Poetry is everywhere
    14:55
    Poetry is everywhere
  17. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
  18. Relationship Behaviour
    01:57
    Relationship Behaviour
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