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Freedom Come All Ye?
Episode 6 of 7
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.
A series of documentaries on the history of the Scots language written and presented by Billy Kay. (Revised repeat)
Today city dialects are often despised - even by Scots language enthusiasts. Can MacDiarmid's 'plastic' Scots and the old, rural dialects come to terms with developing urban speech in the 1980s?
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Sun 25 Sep 201607:00
BBC Radio Scotland
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- Tue 20 Sep 201613:30BBC Radio Scotland
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Scots: A Living, Thriving Language
Billy Kay discusses Scots and explores it's relevance to past and future generations.
