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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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Alister McReynolds and David Hume visit Ballycarry. Helen Mark meets Session Beat.

Alister McReynolds and David Hume are in the old graveyard at Ballycarry. In Fermanagh, Helen Mark meets two members of Session Beat, a group of Ulster-Scots musicians.

In the first of a two-part series on the history of Ballycarry in County Antrim, Alister McReynolds talks to historian David Hume in the old graveyard at the top of the village where a poet, a politician and a rebel lie side by side. The poet is the famous weaver poet, James Orr; the rebel was 16 year old William Nelson who was hanged outside his mother’s house for helping the United Irishmen; and radical churchman, Reverend Edward Brice was also sentenced to “perpetual silence”…

Ulster-Scots musicians, “Session Beat” hail from Enniskillen.  Two of the group are teachers, Kyle Hopper and Rodney Brownlee - and Helen Mark catches up with them at their school to find out about the various musical influences on the band.

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.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 24

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