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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. Poetry is everywhere
    14:55
    Poetry is everywhere
  10. Gil's bug hospital
    05:28
    Gil's bug hospital
  11. What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
    03:02
    What Can Boys Learn From This Novel?
  12. Where monsters come from
    03:38
    Where monsters come from
  13. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  14. Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
    00:48
    Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
  15. McLean Primary eco projects
    02:44
    McLean Primary eco projects
  16. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  17. Reading from The Infinite
    05:46
    Reading from The Infinite
  18. Draw Along
    10:16
    Draw Along
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