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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 2: Programme 4

16/02/2003

Programme 4

Series 2

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 2, Programme 4

The revival of Ulster-Scots, a tape-recording project & Ulster-Scots on the curriculum.

Conal chats to Mark Thompson, Liam Logan, Elizabeth McLeister, staff from the Stranmillis Ulster-Scots project, Charlie Reynolds, Jack Adams and Willie Drennan.

Conal Gillespie talks to Willie Drennan about the revival of Ulster-Scots and we learn about Stranmillis University’s Ulster-Scots Curriculum Project. 

Mark Thompson talks about his interest in Ulster-Scots - and Elizabeth McLeister discusses her Ulster-Scots language tape-recording project. 

We hear about the books ‘Mae Granfeyther’s Tunge’ and ‘Bab McKeen’. 

There’s music from Tommy Makem - and Liam Logan reviews ‘Observe the Sons of Ulster, Marching Towards the Somme’.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 2

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