Series exploring the history of the Scottish language with Billy Kay. He interviews language activists who worked to get the question of Scottish language on the 2011 census. Show more

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language. After the union of Scotland and England, many Scots were faced with having to learn a new language. Show more

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language with Billy Kay. He asks if MacDiarmid's 'plastic' Scots and old rural dialects can come to terms with modern urban speech. Show more

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language. Billy Kay looks at how Grampian is now one of the strongest Scots-speaking areas, but pressures remain. Show more

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language, presented by Billy Kay. The legacy of Burns survives in Ayrshire, despite 18th- and 19th-century fashions of speach. Show more

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language. Billy Kay looks at the speech of Fife miners, which has its roots in languages brought to Scotland before the 15th century. Show more

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language, presented by Billy Kay. He begins with the links between the modern Borders dialect and the origins of the national language. Show more