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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. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  10. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  11. What is the Nowhere Emporium?
    00:45
    What is the Nowhere Emporium?
  12. Reading from Race to the Frozen North
    02:32
    Reading from Race to the Frozen North
  13. Remembering Kobe Bryant
    01:41
    Remembering Kobe Bryant
  14. Introducing us to new historical figures
    02:35
    Introducing us to new historical figures
  15. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  16. Cardboard Cowboys reading
    05:01
    Cardboard Cowboys reading
  17. There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
    04:07
    There's Broccoli in my Ice Cream! - Part 1
  18. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
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