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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. Acting and Writing
    05:49
    Acting and Writing
  10. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  11. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  12. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  13. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  14. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
  15. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
  16. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  17. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  18. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
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