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The Culture Café: St Andrew's Day Special

30/11/2010

St Andrew's Day Special

BBC Radio Scotland - The Culture Café, St Andrew's Day Special

In a St Andrew's Day Special, Billy Kay explores the Scots language.

In a St Andrew's Day Special, Billy Kay explores issues of status and identity in relation to the current state of the 'Scots' language.

St Andrew's Day Special - St Andrew: Scotland's Myth and Identity - Author and teacher, Michael Turnbull shares his fascination with the Saltire and St Andrew and relates what little is known of his life and connections to Scotland. 
The 'Bonnie Broukit Bairn': Billy Kay explores issues of status and identity in relation to the current state of the 'Scots' language - regarded by its speakers as the beautiful neglected child of Scottish culture - 'the bonnie broukit bairn'.

Is 'Scots' A Language? Historians, Billy Kay and Michael Fry discuss and debate whether it constitutes an actual 'language' or is simply a collective name for Scottish 'dialects' like 'Doric', 'Lallans' and 'Scotch' to name just a few.

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