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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. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  10. Questions from schools
    06:40
    Questions from schools
  11. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  12. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  13. Favourite book
    00:45
    Favourite book
  14. Draw the Light Ship
    05:16
    Draw the Light Ship
  15. Question and Answer - Part 1
    05:57
    Question and Answer - Part 1
  16. McLean Primary eco projects
    02:44
    McLean Primary eco projects
  17. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
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