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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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Kist O Wurds: Series 37

A Kist o Wurds: Series 37: Episode 12

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Liam Logan talks to Jim Fenton about his work on The Hamely Tongue.

James Fenton first published The Hamely Tongue in 1995, and twenty years later sees the fourth edition of his unique dictionary which records the Ulster Scots words he collected over years of research and study throughout Co Antrim. To mark the new edition of this important book, in an exclusive interview for Kist, Liam Logan talks to Jim Fenton about his work on The Hamely Tongue, the people and places of north Antrim, and about his poetry, and Jim reads some of his favourite poems.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 37

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