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About Our Tower
Growing up in a tower block provided the inspiration for a magical storybook.
  1. About Our Tower
    04:05
    About Our Tower
  2. The Egyptian Empire
    16:39
    The Egyptian Empire
  3. The British Empire
    04:33
    The British Empire
  4. The World Wars
    07:23
    The World Wars
  5. Weird and Wonderful Inventors
    02:32
    Weird and Wonderful Inventors
  6. The hero birds
    03:03
    The hero birds
  7. Alastair’s influences
    00:28
    Alastair’s influences
  8. Flirting and locker room talk
    06:28
    Flirting and locker room talk
  9. Feather reading
    06:20
    Feather reading
  10. Discussing illustration
    03:51
    Discussing illustration
  11. Questions from schools
    08:43
    Questions from schools
  12. Diving Poem
    02:24
    Diving Poem
  13. Cardboard Cowboys reading
    05:01
    Cardboard Cowboys reading
  14. Room on the Broom in Scots
    08:13
    Room on the Broom in Scots
  15. Ideas and inspirational teachers
    05:32
    Ideas and inspirational teachers
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