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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. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  10. Relationship Behaviour
    01:57
    Relationship Behaviour
  11. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  12. Introducing Sav Akyuz
    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
  13. The story rollercoaster
    00:58
    The story rollercoaster
  14. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  15. A question from Twitter
    01:07
    A question from Twitter
  16. Going around gardens!
    03:12
    Going around gardens!
  17. Prez
    01:14
    Prez
  18. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
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