Audio & Video
The origins of 'Lads'
Alan Bissett chats to presenter Nick Sheridan about how his book Lads came about.
- The origins of 'Lads'
- 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
- The Crackledawn Dragon
- Reading from The Crossover
- School days and writing
- What motivates writing and how do you develop ideas?
- Writing historical fiction
- A question from Freya.
- Reading from The Crossing
- Weather and climate
- The Otherwhere Emporium reading
- Gill reads from Willow Wildthing and the Dragon's Egg