Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio Ulster,3 mins

SeriesSeries 7

Willie Cromie reads The Gannaway Burn

A Kist o Wurds

Available for over a year

We’ve a reading of ‘The Gannaway Burn’ - written by Andrew McKenzie, the Bard of Dunover (near Ballywalter) and read by Willie Cromie. The music behind the reading is ‘Lament for Lowrie o’ da Lea’, played by late Shetland fiddler, Willie Hunter, with piano accompaniment by Violet Tulloch. This reading can be found on a cassette tape produced by the two Wills, called ‘Braid Tongue Poems’. (Broadcast: 12 Jun 2005)

Programme Website
More episodes