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How do you come up with names for your characters?
Arlo and Augustus are great names for characters, but how does Catherine dream them up?
  1. How do you come up with names for your characters?
    01:09
    How do you come up with names for your characters?
  2. Simon Cowell
    00:38
    Simon Cowell
  3. Raj
    01:15
    Raj
  4. Characters
    02:09
    Characters
  5. Finishing feelings
    01:20
    Finishing feelings
  6. School dinners
    00:54
    School dinners
  7. Thames
    01:04
    Thames
  8. Favourite book
    02:25
    Favourite book
  9. Next book
    01:00
    Next book
  10. Favourite author
    01:17
    Favourite author
  11. Gangsta Granny
    12:25
    Gangsta Granny
  12. Readers and writers
    06:47
    Readers and writers
  13. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  14. Children’s Laureate
    03:24
    Children’s Laureate
  15. The main characters
    03:46
    The main characters
  16. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  17. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  18. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  19. One frame
    01:29
    One frame
  20. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  21. Sue's presentation
    11:34
    Sue's presentation
  22. Favourite Scots Words
    04:20
    Favourite Scots Words
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