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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 39

A Kist o Wurds: Series 39: Episode 20

John Kirk and Helen Mark

Episode 20

Series 39

22/01/2017

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 39, 22/01/2017

Helen Mark opens a Kist full of poems, songs and celebrations by and for Robert Burns.

Hugh Jordan sings a Burns favourite and Wilson Burgess has a rhyme about a different sort of haggis.

Helen Mark opens a Kist full of poems, songs and celebrations by and for Robert Burns. Hugh Jordan sings a Burns favourite; Wilson Burgess has a rhyme about a different sort of haggis; John Kirk enthuses about the bard’s verses and Alister McReynolds takes us way out West on the Burns trail.  Also on the show, Carol Baraniuk tells Helen about the Andrew Gibson Memorial Lecture at the Linen Hall Library and Robyn Stapleton, BBC Radio Scotland's  Young Traditional Musician of the Year in 2014, has a selection from her new CD, Songs of Robert Burns.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 39

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