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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  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. Being Children’s Laureate
    05:08
    Being Children’s Laureate
  10. Health and Medicine
    04:36
    Health and Medicine
  11. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  12. How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
    03:12
    How important is it for young queer people to see themselves in fiction?
  13. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  14. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  15. Crackledawn
    02:08
    Crackledawn
  16. Wordplay
    14:05
    Wordplay
  17. Desert island books
    02:27
    Desert island books
  18. Toxic Relationships
    04:42
    Toxic Relationships
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