BBC Radio Ulster

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 3: Programme 1

07/09/2003

Programme 1

Series 3

BBC Radio Ulster - A Kist o Wurds, Series 3, Programme 1

Ulster-Scots history, language and dancing in Bready - and a new CD from Ailsa.

Conal meets 'Ailsa' - and folk from the Bready & District Ulster-Scots Society.  There's music and poetry, crack with Ian and Archie, and news of a competition for school children.

Ulster-Scots history, language and dancing in Bready - and music from the band Caledonian Connection. 

The winners of the Ulster-Scots Language Society Schools Competition are announced; and music group Ailsa talk about their CD ‘Misty Burn’. 

Ian and Archie from Ballymoney have a chat about the Ulster-Scots language and Gavin Faulkner reads a poem.

A Kist o Wurds: Series 3

Northern Ireland's national station for local news, sport, weather, speech and music

Northern Ireland's national station for local news, live sport, weather, intelligent speech, great personalities and music to suit all tastes

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

Accessibility links

Programme Index

A Kist o Wurds

Series 3

Programme 1

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio Ulster

About BBC Radio Ulster

About this data