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CRIDHEALAS HA CEILIDH

on BBC Home Service Basic

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Ceol, cleasachd, ceistean Ie lain MacNeacail air ceanri na cuideachd. (Gaelic programme)
The music and literature of the Gaelic people- of Britain is still, despite the n-creasing use of English in out-of-the-way corners of the country, extraordinarily virile. Since the war, moreover, circum-Mances have arisen here and there to provide unusual stimuli to questions that attect ' the tongue '. Recently, for example, Hugh Macphee , who is responsible for all Gaelic broadcasting, came across a party of Canadian soldiers from Cape
Breton whose Gaelic was as true and as pure as that of any Highland homestead.
Macphee had with him a car and was able to put on disc this interesting contribution to ' Voices from the Hills ', which, including music and speech recorded on the spot, presents a radio scrapbook of the Gaelic-speaking people as they are

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Hugh MacPhee

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