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Final thoughts
What would Alan like readers to take away from Lads?
  1. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  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. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  10. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  11. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  12. How did you plan the structure of the novel?
    02:38
    How did you plan the structure of the novel?
  13. Schools questions
    09:55
    Schools questions
  14. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  15. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  16. Hallowe'en in Scotland
    06:14
    Hallowe'en in Scotland
  17. School days
    03:57
    School days
  18. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
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