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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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To mark Thanksgiving, Alister McReynolds visits the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh.

To mark Thanksgiving, Alister McReynolds visits the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh. He also meets Castlebay to hear about a new Scots-Irish multimedia programme.

Alister McReynolds marks the anniversary of Thanksgiving by going to where the Old World meets the New at the Ulster American Folk Park.  He hears how the Ulster-Scots settlers celebrated Thanksgiving, and gets to sample a taste of what they ate. 

Alister drops by as a settler family welcomes home their soldier son during the Civil War, and hears how the Centre for Migration Studies is marking Thanksgiving. 

And continuing the theme of emigration, Alister meets Castlebay, a duo from Maine who have created The Grand Design, the story of a group of Scots-Irish Presbyterians who sailed for America in 1741, re-told for our day in a multimedia programme with music and song.

This programme was produced by Chris Spurr 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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