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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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Lambeg drumming; a Working Vintage Gathering; a new website shares rare John Hewitt texts.

The region's largest lambeg drumming competition in Markethill; a Working Vintage Gathering in Greyabbey; and rare texts from the John Hewitt collection can now be found online.

Anne Morrison-Smyth finds out about the origins of the lambeg drum from historian, Alister McReynolds; and percussionist, Mark Wilson talks to one of the hopefuls at Northern Ireland’s largest lambeg drumming competition which takes place every summer in Markethill, County Armagh.

A new website containing digitized versions of fourteen works from the John Hewitt collection, was launched recently at the University of Ulster (Coleraine Campus).  Dr Frank Ferguson explains that half a dozen of these rare texts have an Ulster-Scots twist.

Rosemount Estate in Greyabbey – home of the Montgomery family – played host this summer to a "Working Vintage" display. Kist attends this fair in the old Scottish Gathering tradition and finds: jeeps that saw action in Vietnam; unique engines made from parts of dumper trucks; and women for whom driving a tractor is the key to happiness!

This programme was produced by Elizabeth Rice for Blackthorn Productions. If you have any comments, please email the production team at kist@bbc.co.uk or telephone 028 9033 8435.

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