Close menu
BBC Scotland
Authors Live

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
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. Hopeless at maths!
    05:06
    Hopeless at maths!
  3. Writing stories
    04:44
    Writing stories
  4. Lily Alone
    04:23
    Lily Alone
  5. Hetty Feather
    09:05
    Hetty Feather
  6. The story of Tracy
    04:13
    The story of Tracy
  7. Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    04:44
    Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  8. More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
    06:28
    More Q&A with Jacqueline Wilson
  9. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  10. Creating a magical place
    06:49
    Creating a magical place
  11. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  12. Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
    05:14
    Tom and Ross on starting to write and draw
  13. How to draw a cheetah
    07:21
    How to draw a cheetah
  14. Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
    09:49
    Reading from Maddy Yip's guide to life
  15. Re-imagining Scottish folklore
    01:48
    Re-imagining Scottish folklore
  16. Persistence
    01:24
    Persistence
  17. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  18. Draw the Light Ship
    05:16
    Draw the Light Ship
    19. Now playing
    Up next