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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. 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. A question of inspiration
    02:51
    A question of inspiration
  10. Who is Josh Bell?
    01:03
    Who is Josh Bell?
  11. Authors Live with Ross Sayers
    31:15
    Authors Live with Ross Sayers
  12. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  13. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  14. Rachel’s books and inspirations
    06:29
    Rachel’s books and inspirations
  15. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  16. Don't Kvetch
    01:55
    Don't Kvetch
  17. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  18. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
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