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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

A Kist o Wurds: Series 3: Programme 3

21/09/2003

Programme 3

Series 3

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 3, Programme 3

With Scottish writers Janet Paisley and Liz Nevin, the late Ernie Scott & the two Wills.

Conal chats to Ernie Scott in Ballyclare; and to Ian James Parsley at the QUB Symposium.  Scots writers Liz Nevin and Janet Paisley talk about their work; and there's a poem from the Two Wills.

Scottish writers Janet Paisley and Liz Nevin talk about the importance of writing in Scots and the late Ernie Scott talks about the Ulster-Scots tongue and reads a poem. 

Dr John Corbett and Ian James Parsley address the QUB Symposium on the state and future of modern Scots. 

There’s music from Eddi Reader and the two Wills entertain us with a reading from the Gazette ‘Braid Tongue Poems’.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 3

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