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Kintra: Remembering Benvarden’s Safari Park, St Patrick’s Scottish roots, and marking the loss of a well-known Ulster-Scot.

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Remembering Benvarden’s Safari Park, St Patrick’s Scottish roots, and marking the loss of a well-known Ulster-Scot.

BBC Radio Ulster - Kintra, Remembering Benvarden’s Safari Park, St Patrick’s Scottish roots, and marking the loss of a well-known Ulster-Scot.

Lions near Dervock, Patrick’s Scottish roots and the passing of a respected Ulster-Scot.

Gathering memories of the Safari Park for an exhibition, St Patrick’s Scottish roots and marking the loss of a much-loved Ulster-Scot from Kilkeel.

The long-since closed Safari Park at Benvarden is the subject of an exhibition being planned by the Causeway Museum Service.  Jonnie Crawford sets about gathering a few memories from those who worked there or remember going to see the lions and monkeys. 
Helen Mark has been talking to Diane Forsythe MLA about her relation – Maynard Hanna – who died recently.  She hears about his key role over decades in promoting Ulster-Scots not just in his hometown of Kilkeel, but across the country and beyond.  
With the main tourist season approaching, David Gilliland of the Ulster-Scots Community Network tells the team about the publications available to show St Patrick’s Scottish roots.
Willie Hill and Rab Lennox complete the Kintra team for this week and anyone who’d like to get in touch can email the programme;  kintra@bbc.co.uk

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