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Taking Up Boxing
Nikesh takes up boxing to help him deal with difficult situations.
  1. Taking Up Boxing
    03:04
    Taking Up Boxing
  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. Slugs and Brain Pâté
    11:48
    Slugs and Brain Pâté
  10. Respecting each other
    01:57
    Respecting each other
  11. Truth and Lies
    13:33
    Truth and Lies
  12. The Great Storm Whale reading
    06:27
    The Great Storm Whale reading
  13. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  14. D is for Dialogue
    03:04
    D is for Dialogue
  15. Reading from The Boxer
    01:42
    Reading from The Boxer
  16. Creating a Poem
    08:58
    Creating a Poem
  17. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
  18. Introducing Cookie
    04:11
    Introducing Cookie
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