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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 38

A Kist o Wurds: Series 38: Episode 37

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Series 38

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Liam Logan has some crack with Willie Cromie about working on the thresher.

Liam Logan has some crack with Willie Cromie about working on the thresher as a boy of four, and how the school in Ballywalter tried to stop the weans speaking the Scots tongue.

On Kist o Wurds this week Liam Logan has some crack with Willie Cromie about working on the thresher as a boy of four, and how the school in Ballywalter tried to stop the weans speaking their ain Scots tongue. Liz Hoy has a rhyme from Cullybacky and Liam drops by the rehearsals for the 2016 Walled City Tattoo. We also hear about William Tennent, Belfast's richest man in his day who was also a radical and was jailed after the '98 rebellion. Liam hears from Dr John Bew about the TV programme he has made about an important but largely forgotten man.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 38

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