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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. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  10. Questions from Schools
    09:36
    Questions from Schools
  11. Writing the Twitchers
    05:00
    Writing the Twitchers
  12. Emily's Books
    02:27
    Emily's Books
  13. Dragonese
    01:19
    Dragonese
  14. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  15. More questions
    01:42
    More questions
  16. Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
    06:17
    Reading from 'Daisy on the Outer Line'
  17. Questions
    04:03
    Questions
  18. Hercules Song
    01:56
    Hercules Song
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