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Charlie Gillen meets Nancy Nicholson
Nancy Nicholson of Caithness performs a song about her childhood at school in Caithness, and tells Charlie Gillen that her Scots tongue wasn’t acceptable in the classroom when she was a child - though as a teacher, she was delighted to hear Scots words from her pupils. (Broadcast: 3 Mar 2007)
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