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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. Beat the Calculator
    02:54
    Beat the Calculator
  3. 1089
    06:56
    1089
  4. Perfect pentagon
    04:14
    Perfect pentagon
  5. Fabulous flexagon
    02:05
    Fabulous flexagon
  6. Making Cubes
    05:26
    Making Cubes
  7. Prime number pizza
    04:24
    Prime number pizza
  8. Numerical masterclass
    03:20
    Numerical masterclass
  9. Q&A with Kjartan Poskitt
    05:19
    Q&A with Kjartan Poskitt
  10. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  11. Chris McQueer – reading
    03:07
    Chris McQueer – reading
  12. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  13. Introducing Wain
    00:21
    Introducing Wain
  14. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  15. Questions from schools
    04:02
    Questions from schools
  16. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  17. Sputnik
    00:55
    Sputnik
  18. No Breathing in Class
    04:08
    No Breathing in Class
  19. Sue's presentation
    11:34
    Sue's presentation
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