Close menu
BBC Scotland
Authors Live

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
Developing your voice
The writers talk about how they created their own distinctive styles.
  1. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  2. Scots
    01:14
    Scots
  3. Writing in Scots
    01:54
    Writing in Scots
  4. Minging!
    00:42
    Minging!
  5. Taking on Roald Dahl
    02:40
    Taking on Roald Dahl
  6. The right words
    02:22
    The right words
  7. Quentin Blake
    00:42
    Quentin Blake
  8. A reading in Scots
    02:35
    A reading in Scots
  9. Questions
    01:21
    Questions
  10. More questions
    03:14
    More questions
  11. Even more questions
    03:39
    Even more questions
  12. Where The Heart Should Be
    06:14
    Where The Heart Should Be
  13. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  14. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  15. Questions from schools
    07:37
    Questions from schools
  16. Hercules Song
    01:56
    Hercules Song
  17. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  18. Book Introduction
    01:20
    Book Introduction
  19. No Breathing in Class
    04:08
    No Breathing in Class
  20. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  21. What are you favourite things about books?
    01:20
    What are you favourite things about books?
    22. Now playing
    Up next