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The Black Flamingo
Dean gives us a flavour of The Black Flamingo with a reading from the opening chapter.
  1. The Black Flamingo
    05:09
    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. The Crackledawn Dragon
    02:10
    The Crackledawn Dragon
  10. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  11. Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
    08:13
    Writing Tips with... Catherine Rayner
  12. Birdspotting Quiz
    05:46
    Birdspotting Quiz
  13. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  14. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  15. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  16. A monster quiz
    08:19
    A monster quiz
  17. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  18. Poet recommendations
    02:45
    Poet recommendations
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