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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  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. A bit of a read
    04:28
    A bit of a read
  10. Orion Lost reading
    02:48
    Orion Lost reading
  11. Illustrating the Book
    02:15
    Illustrating the Book
  12. It Does Matter
    02:17
    It Does Matter
  13. Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
    04:07
    Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
  14. Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
    08:22
    Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
  15. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  16. Noi and his family
    03:19
    Noi and his family
  17. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
  18. Steven Lenton's illustrations
    00:35
    Steven Lenton's illustrations
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