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Questions from Linlithgow Academy
Alan responds to questions from the pupils of Linlithgow Academy.
  1. Questions from Linlithgow Academy
    05:02
    Questions from Linlithgow Academy
  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. Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
    16:05
    Whuppity Stoorie by Lari Don
  10. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  11. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  12. How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
    02:32
    How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
  13. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  14. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  15. Hand on the Bridge
    02:28
    Hand on the Bridge
  16. Start with a face
    02:25
    Start with a face
  17. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
  18. A novel in verse
    01:02
    A novel in verse
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