22/01/2017

Helen Mark opens a Kist full of poems, songs and celebrations by and for Robert Burns. Hugh Jordan sings a Burns favourite; Wilson Burgess has a rhyme about a different sort of haggis; John Kirk enthuses about the bard’s verses and Alister McReynolds takes us way out West on the Burns trail. Also on the show, Carol Baraniuk tells Helen about the Andrew Gibson Memorial Lecture at the Linen Hall Library and Robyn Stapleton, BBC Radio Scotland's Young Traditional Musician of the Year in 2014, has a selection from her new CD, Songs of Robert Burns.