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Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
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James tells us why he thinks there’s such enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic in schools.
  1. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  2. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  3. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  4. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  5. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
  6. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  7. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
  8. Becoming an Author
    00:58
    Becoming an Author
  9. Studio questions
    02:06
    Studio questions
  10. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  11. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  12. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  13. Dogs in space
    01:29
    Dogs in space
  14. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  15. The power of fantasy fiction
    04:28
    The power of fantasy fiction
  16. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  17. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
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