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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.

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A Kist o Wurds; Series 15; 01/12/2007

A Kist o Wurds: Series 15: Programme 14

Music: Folk

01/12/2007

Programme 14

Series 15

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 15, Programme 14

FUSE FM on air in Ballymoney, news from Maine USA, poetry and features from the Ards.

Jackie opens the Kist to find a poem ‘Gannaway Burn’ by Alexander McKenzie, the Bard of Dunover who died in 1826. It’s read by Willie Cromie and appears on a CD called ‘Poems in the Braid Tongue of the Ards’.

Alister McReynolds is a Fellow of the Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies at Magee College. He tells us about the Ulster-Scots diaspora in Maine, USA - specifically a whole community in Brunswick.

The ‘Young Yins’ of the Ulster-Scots Folk Orchestra perform ‘Tha Greba Lasses’ from the album ‘Mair Folk’; and then we have a tale of hardship and bird-hunting on the Ards Peninsula in times past, told by Will McAvoy and recorded by the Ulster-Scots Language Society.

The Hounds of Ulster have put out a new CD called ‘Flax, Flower and Thistle’ and we hear ‘The Killycrankie Selection’ before heading up to Ballymoney for news of Fuse FM which has just gone on air in the town.  Jackie chats to David Gordon, Project Co-Ordinator at the Ulster-Scots Agency; Gary Blair who is co-ordinating the Ballymoney project; and Anne Smith who is promoting the local musical talent. The station welcomes texts on 079 3600 7888 or emails to fusefm@yahoo.co.uk and tune into 106.2 FM.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 15

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