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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  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. Creating a magical place
    06:49
    Creating a magical place
  10. Inspiration
    02:14
    Inspiration
  11. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  12. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  13. Prez
    01:14
    Prez
  14. Pupils' questions
    07:21
    Pupils' questions
  15. A monster quiz
    08:19
    A monster quiz
  16. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  17. A question of inspiration
    02:51
    A question of inspiration
  18. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
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