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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. Move it
    00:51
    Move it
  3. My dad knows everything
    04:26
    My dad knows everything
  4. Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
    05:50
    Return of the bendy, bendy toothbrush
  5. The noise!
    03:52
    The noise!
  6. The space
    01:18
    The space
  7. What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
    03:19
    What is your favourite piece of work that you've written? What is your most treasured possession?
  8. Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
    04:33
    Where do you get your ideas from? What is a poem?
  9. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  10. Questions and Answers
    06:15
    Questions and Answers
  11. This is a democracy
    00:39
    This is a democracy
  12. Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
    06:44
    Cookie’s Brain Busting Quiz
  13. Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
    01:45
    Is it easier or harder to write a trilogy?
  14. Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
    03:10
    Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
  15. Sarah’s route into fiction
    07:16
    Sarah’s route into fiction
  16. Ideas for books
    02:25
    Ideas for books
  17. Phil’s characters
    05:36
    Phil’s characters
  18. Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
    06:54
    Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
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