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The origins of 'Lads'
Alan Bissett chats to presenter Nick Sheridan about how his book Lads came about.
  1. The origins of 'Lads'
    06:09
    The origins of 'Lads'
  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. Questions from schools
    07:16
    Questions from schools
  10. Final thoughts
    01:33
    Final thoughts
  11. Questions from West Calder High School
    05:42
    Questions from West Calder High School
  12. How Catherine works
    00:59
    How Catherine works
  13. Why comics matter
    06:03
    Why comics matter
  14. Cuiken Primary film
    03:02
    Cuiken Primary film
  15. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  16. Keeping Up With Michael
    01:39
    Keeping Up With Michael
  17. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  18. Stories are people
    01:59
    Stories are people
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