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A Kist o Wurds is our weekly Ulster-Scots magazine show.

A Kist o Wurds brings you Ulster-Scots music, poetry, stories and history from round the country.

Since A Kist o Wurds began in 2002, it has been BBC Northern Ireland's longest-running Ulster-Scots radio programme.  Each week we bring you a selection of music, poetry and news from all over the country. Find out more about the language, culture, literary traditions and history of Ulster-Scots.

A Kist o Wurds; Series 15; 

A Kist o Wurds: Series 15: Programme 10

Music: Folk

03/11/2007

Programme 10

Series 15

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 15, Programme 10

Jackie Morrison visits Sam Wallace, we hear poetry old and new, and there’s a few tunes.

Jackie opens the programme with a visit to her friend Sam Wallace in his home looking out towards Slemish and they have a good yarn about stone walling, working sheepdogs and other things. We’ve music from Sylvia Barnes with ‘Glasgow Lassie’ from her CD, ‘The Colour of Amber’.  

Wilbert Magill has written a poem, based on a true incident that took place in Newtownards Harvest Fair about 100 years ago: it’s called ‘William James’ Unicorn’.  And we have an older poem, written by David Herbison, The Bard of Dunclug, called ‘The Group’ about a bunch of friends coming together for a bit of crack in Sam McGuffin’s Kitchen. The poem has been set to music by local band, Ailsa.

We close the programme with a poem from Wilson Burgess - Oot o the Bottle - about the results of a trip to a hairdresser….

A Kist o Wurds: Series 15

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