Episode 29. Robert Burns
Sunday, 29th July 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
Our national bard needs no introduction, so John Purser examines his work in the context of Scotland’s musical history: Burns’s song collecting, his encounters with Niel Gow, and his ever-present connection to the land and to nature.
Episode Playlist
- Burns - The Ploughman
Lesley Hale
CD The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 4
Linn CKD 083 - Burns - Ay Waukin’ O
Jo Miller
BBC recording - Robert Burns - O once I loved a Bonnie Lass
Davy Steele
CD The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 5
Linn CKD 086 - Trad - The Auld Man’s Mare’s Deid
Jo Miller
BBC recording - Robert Burns - The Old Man’s Mare’s Dead
Ewan MacColl
LP A Garland of Scots Folksong
Folk Lyric FL 116 - Niel Gow – Niel Gow’s Lamentation for James Moray Esq. of Abercairney
Pete Clark
CD Even Now
Smiddymade SMD 615 - Robert Burns - Now Westlin’ Winds
Gill Bowman
CD Toastin the Lassies
Greentrax CDTRAX 085 - Robert Burns - Masonic Song
Davy Steele
CD The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 5
Linn CKD 086 - Robert Burns - I Dream’d I Lay
Bobby Eaglesham
CD The Complete Songs of Robert Burns Volume 7
Linn CKD 107
