Audio & Video
The origins of 'Lads'
Alan Bissett chats to presenter Nick Sheridan about how his book Lads came about.
- The origins of 'Lads'
- Book Introduction
- Reading from The Boxer
- How to Start Writing a Book
- It Does Matter
- Dealing with Racists
- Taking Up Boxing
- Box Yourself
- Self-Defence
- Reading from The Boxer - Part 2
- Question and Answer - Part 1
- Question and Answer - Part 2
- How to draw emotions
- Emily's Books
- Favourite book
- A bit of a read
- Reading of The Gecko and the Echo
- Questions from Linlithgow Academy
- Discovering New Words
- Slugs and Brain Pâté
- Remembering Kobe Bryant
- How do you come up with names for your characters?





















