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Episode 6: Freedom Come All Ye?

Freedom Come All Ye?

BBC Radio Scotland - The Scots Tongue, Freedom Come All Ye?

Billy Kay asks if 'plastic' Scots and rural dialects can come to terms with modern speech.

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language with Billy Kay. He asks if MacDiarmid's 'plastic' Scots and old rural dialects can come to terms with modern urban speech.

A series of documentaries on the history of the Scots language written and presented by Billy Kay. (Revised repeat) 

Today city dialects are often despised - even by Scots language enthusiasts. Can MacDiarmid's 'plastic' Scots and the old, rural dialects come to terms with developing urban speech in the 1980s?

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Series exploring the history of the Scottish language, written and presented by Billy Kay.

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