Close menu
BBC Scotland
Authors Live

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
Stories and puzzles
Alastair talks about how he first got into writing books
  1. Stories and puzzles
    01:34
    Stories and puzzles
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. Questions from schools
    05:21
    Questions from schools
  12. Box Yourself
    03:44
    Box Yourself
  13. Flirting and locker room talk
    06:28
    Flirting and locker room talk
  14. Question time
    04:36
    Question time
  15. Questions from the audience
    09:53
    Questions from the audience
  16. Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
    02:48
    Chat with Comic Artist Tanya Roberts
  17. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  18. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  19. Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
    03:08
    Reading from The Boy Who Made Monsters
  20. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    21. Now playing
    Up next