Audio & Video
The origins of 'Lads'
Alan Bissett chats to presenter Nick Sheridan about how his book Lads came about.
- The origins of 'Lads'
- Introduction
- Genre
- The World
- Drawing out the secret character
- Character and story
- Stuff
- Obstacles
- Choices
- Summary
- How Does Your Own Personal Experience Shape Your Writing?
- Favourite characters and Matthew Henson
- Sue's presentation
- How do you come up with names for your characters?
- Stories are people
- Scottish words and questions from schools
- Did anyone encourage Ross MacKenzie to write books?
- Nadine Aisha Jassat – poetry reading
- Draw Goldy the Gecko
- Room on the Broom in Scots