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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  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. Meeting the Wolf Queen
    02:20
    Meeting the Wolf Queen
  10. Going around gardens!
    03:12
    Going around gardens!
  11. We are all storytellers
    05:27
    We are all storytellers
  12. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  13. S is for Scots
    03:30
    S is for Scots
  14. Balloons!
    02:59
    Balloons!
  15. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  16. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  17. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  18. Questions from schools
    05:22
    Questions from schools
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