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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 2

13/03/2002

Programme 2

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BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 1, Programme 2

Ulster-Scots in the classroom; music, drama, literature; and news of a new Institute...

Charlie Gillen and Philip Robinson visit Balnamore Primary School; and there's news about the new Institute of Ulster Scots Studies at Magee College. 

In West Belfast, we find out about a rap version of Robert Burns’ ‘Tam O Shanter’.  

James Fenton reads from his poetry collection,‘Thonner and Thon’; and Will McAvoy has advice on the subject of marriage - before we hear an extract from ‘Tales on Slemish’ by Willie Drennan and the Ulster-Scots Folk Orchestra.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 1

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Stories, music, poetry and crack from the programme that's the home of Ulster-Scots.

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