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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 40

A Kist o Wurds: Series 40: 21/01/2018

From Alloway in Ayrshire

21/01/2018

Series 40

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 40, 21/01/2018

Helen Mark is at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, where Robert Burns was born in 1759.

Helen Mark is at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and hears about some of the treasures the museum holds. With Burns songs performed by Siobhan Millar and Robyn Stapleton.

Helen Mark is in Alloway in Ayrshire, where Robert Burns was born in January 1759. Rab Wilson is the Scots Scriever at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, and he reads a lively new verse celebrating a wheen of reciters of the bard's work. Helen hears from curator Sean McGlashan about some of the treasures the museum holds that are directly associated with the poet, and at the Burns Cottage, in the very room where Scotia's Bard was born, Hugh Farrell gives a moving recitation of a Burns poem. Professor Gerry Carruthers of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at Glasgow University tells Helen about its latest work; at the annual Robert Burns Conference Jean Brittain and Carol Baranuik talk about their regard for the poet, and songs by Burns are performed by Siobhan Millar and Robyn Stapleton.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 40

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