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Introducing The Black Flamingo
Dean describes his novel in verse, The Black Flamingo.
  1. Introducing The Black Flamingo
    00:27
    Introducing The Black Flamingo
  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. There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy
    06:17
    There’s Nothing Cuter Than A Puppy
  10. The Otherwhere Emporium reading
    04:21
    The Otherwhere Emporium reading
  11. More questions for Sav
    02:00
    More questions for Sav
  12. A question from Blake
    01:15
    A question from Blake
  13. Our Tower reading
    06:12
    Our Tower reading
  14. Process of illustration and writing
    01:40
    Process of illustration and writing
  15. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  16. One frame
    01:29
    One frame
  17. Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
    04:56
    Reading from 'Luna Loves Dance'
  18. Sue's presentation
    11:34
    Sue's presentation
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