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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 36

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Series 39

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 39, Episode 36

In Larne, David Hume is creating American Dreams, a new performance piece.

Charlie Gillen looks back to the days when folk listened to the boxing matches from America on a wireless powered by a wet battery in a glass jar.

Charlie Gillen takes us back to the days when folk listened to the boxing matches from America on a wireless powered by a wet battery in a glass jar. In Larne, David Hume is creating American Dreams, a new performance piece for the Friends' Goodwill Festival, and Audrey Wales, the Mayor of Mid and East Antrim tells John Watt why it's important to remember the first known emigrant ship from Ulster to cross the Atlantic, exactly three hundred years ago. Meanwhile, Liz Hoy, Kist's own poem hunter, has discovered another gem.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 39

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