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The real world and the fictional world
How a rain forest in Wales provided inspiration for Kiran’s fictional world.
  1. The real world and the fictional world
    11:22
    The real world and the fictional world
  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. Chris McQueer – reading
    03:07
    Chris McQueer – reading
  10. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  11. Developing your voice
    02:24
    Developing your voice
  12. Questions from the audience
    05:40
    Questions from the audience
  13. Questions
    04:03
    Questions
  14. A first science fiction novel
    00:44
    A first science fiction novel
  15. Audience questions
    03:17
    Audience questions
  16. Reading from The Crossing
    04:47
    Reading from The Crossing
  17. School days
    03:57
    School days
  18. Using Scotland as a setting
    01:06
    Using Scotland as a setting
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