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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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Helen Mark is at the Broadisland Gathering.

A Kist o Wurds celebrates all things Ulster-Scots. This week Helen is at the Broadisland Gathering for the annual celebration of the village's links to Scotland.

Helen Mark is in Ballycarry, east Antrim, at the Broadisland Gathering, for the Silver Jubilee of the annual celebration of the village's links to Scotland, which stretch back more than 400 years. The sun is shining on the 25th Gathering when Helen meets the chair of the Community Association, Valerie Beattie, all set for an enjoyable day at the festival. Kenny Mitchell and Amanda Robinson tell Helen about the success they're having with the Alastair Scott Ceilidh Band, and Helen gets to meet wee Alastair himself. The Gathering's favourite longfellow, Tim McGarry, is back again to open proceedings and to blatter the drum, but Dick Glasgow is here making some rather more tuneful music with his band Scad the Beggars. Rev John Nelson reminds Helen that the village meeting house was old in James Orr's day, all of 200 years ago, and an east Antrim poet of today, Davy Moore, reads his verse about the director of the Gathering, 'Thon Boy Hume'. David Hume himself tells Helen that it's the first time they have an Irish folk group playing in the festival's marquee, and Helen meets Na Leanaí to hear about their music.

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