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Writing historical fiction
How do you write about people who lived long ago?
  1. Writing historical fiction
    03:58
    Writing historical fiction
  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. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  10. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  11. How did you learn to draw?
    00:36
    How did you learn to draw?
  12. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  13. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  14. Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
    04:53
    Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
  15. Elle and the characters of The Infinite
    04:35
    Elle and the characters of The Infinite
  16. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  17. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  18. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
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