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Final thoughts
What would Alan like readers to take away from Lads?
  1. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
  12. Questions from schools
    08:14
    Questions from schools
  13. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
  14. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  15. A Dog with Nice Ears
    07:10
    A Dog with Nice Ears
  16. Writing Haikus
    08:00
    Writing Haikus
  17. Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
    07:30
    Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
  18. Introducing Sav Akyuz
    01:45
    Introducing Sav Akyuz
  19. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  20. Translating into Gaelic
    00:53
    Translating into Gaelic
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