Audio & Video
School days and writing
Janice chats to Brian about growing up in Coatbridge and how he began writing.
- School days and writing
- Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
- Why is it important to learn Scots and Gaelic?
- Reading The Gruffalo in Scots
- Reading The Gruffalo in Gaelic
- Translating into Gaelic
- Discovering New Words
- Favourite Scots Words
- Introduction to the Twitchers
- Boogie Woogie Buggy
- S is for Scots
- The main characters
- Inspirations and Escaped Terrapin
- Questions from schools
- Working with young writers
- Being Children’s Laureate
- Reading from 'The Places I've Cried in Public'
- Authors Live with Holly Bourne