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A Kist o Wurds

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.

A Kist O Wurds

A Kist o Wurds: Series 1: Programme 1 

06/03/2002

Programme 1 

Series 1

Programme 1

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 1, Programme 1

Crack with Willie Drennan, James Fenton, Sally Young, the Two Wills and Maureen Harkin.

Conal Gillespie speaks with James Fenton about his influential book ‘The Hamely Tongue’. 

Maureen Harkin provides information about the musical ‘Premonition’ and publicises the Belfast Ulster-Scots Festival.

The 'Two Wills’ chat to Philip Robinson about life in the Ards and Sally Young tells us about the Townlands of the Ards Peninsula.

Willie Drennan of the Ulster-Scots Folk Orchestra discusses their school workshops and there’s music from Ptarmigan.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 1

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