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| Address To A Haggis, An [radio Ulster] | ...Helen Mark and guests celebrate the 250th anniversary of ROBERT BURNS' birth with poetry, songs and the secrets of haggis making.... |
| All Change | ...Pius Ncube is Archbishop of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe and perhaps the most outspoken of Robert Mugabes many critics. He has just won the ROBERT BURNS Humanitarian Award for 2005, yet he prays for the day that the Zimbabwean President dies and does not see this as an un-Christian act.... |
| Auld Lang Syne [radio Scotland] | ...A concert recorded at Celtic Connections celebrating the 250th anniversary of ROBERT BURNS ... |
| Bard Of Ireland - Irish Melodies | ...Often compared in style to contemporaries like Walter Scott and ROBERT BURNS, Moore was regarded as one of the most important poets of his era. Moore used melodies from traditional Irish music collections, collaborated on arrangements and added his own patriotic and popular lyrics, and as a result gained himself the title 'Bard of Ireland'.... |
| Burns And Gow | ...ROBERT BURNS met the great fiddler Niel Gow only once. With Jimmy Chisholm as Burns and Michael Marra as Gow, their encounter is commemorated in this drama by Bryan Beattie.... |
| Burns The Brand [radio Scotland] | ...Comedian Fred MacAulay attempts to quantify the value of ROBERT BURNS to the British economy, as Scotland celebrates the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth.... |
| Burns The Brand | ...Comedian Fred MacAulay attempts to quantify the value of ROBERT BURNS to the British economy, as Scotland celebrates the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth.... |
| Celtic Connections | ...Mike Harding presents music from the 2009 Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, with Arlo Guthrie among the artists featured. Plus a special tribute to ROBERT BURNS.... |
| Comedy Zone [radio Scotland] | ...ROBERT BURNS Special... |
| Creating Burns's Reputation | ...Poet and Burns scholar Professor Robert Crawford of St Andrews University, examines how ROBERT BURNS became a sensation at home and abroad. With contributions from Douglas Dunn, who considers the strength of Burns's verse, Professor Fiona Stafford, who discusses whether Burns was the first romantic poet and David Hopes, who asks whether Burns's image is going to be renewed again in the making of the new birthplace museum.... |
| Elephant In The Poetry Reading, The | ...For David Kinloch, a Scottish private school education ignored all Scottish literature and ROBERT BURNS' image as a womaniser was a complication for a poet who hadn't yet come out.... |
| Funny Folk | ...Archie Fisher and Tich Frier go all funny to explore the highways and byways of the comic folk tradition, from ROBERT BURNS to the Kipper family.... |
| Heaven Taught Fergusson | ...Investigating his relationship with ROBERT BURNS with the assistance of poet Kathleen Jamie. Including newly commissioned poems by Crawford and Jamie.... |
| House With A Past, A [radio Scotland] | ...Fiona Watson and Bruce Durie investigate the Ayrshire home of a ROBERT BURNS patron and an illicit Wick drinking den which allegedly inspired Robert Louis Stevenson.... |
| Iain Burnside | ...Iain Burnside explores the legacy of ROBERT BURNS.... |
| Jazz House [radio Scotland] | ...Stephen Duffy presents new releases from Scotland and beyond. Richard Michael and the Euan Burton Trio perform songs by ROBERT BURNS to mark the poet's 250th anniversary.... |
| King Street Junior | ...'The best laid schemes o' mice an' men, gang aft a-gley'. ROBERT BURNS obviously knew all about school trips.... |
| Linguistic Legacy Of Robert Burns, The [radio Scotland] | |
| Losses At Sea | ...ROBERT BURNS....Mark Claney... |
| Map Of British Poetry, A | ...With contributions from Neal Ascherson and Joyce Macmillan and poems by Gwyneth Lewis, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Dylan Thomas, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, ROBERT BURNS, Kathleen Jamie, Patrick Kavanagh and Grace Nichols.... |
| Mason Word - The Mystic Tie, The | ...The mystic tie, according to ROBERT BURNS, was the bond experienced and shared by brother masons. Billy Kay reveals that as freemasonry took off in the 18th and 19th centuries, many of the great men of European culture were drawn to the craft - Mozart, Sibelius and Goethe, as well as Scottish icons like Sir Walter Scott and James Boswell ... |
| Mike Harding Show, The | ...There's also an interview with the Scottish singer songwriter Dougie Maclean. His song Caledonia is being used as the theme song to the 2009 Homecoming Scotland celebrations, a calendar of events marking the 250th anniversary of ROBERT BURNS' birth and Scotland's rich cultural heritage.... |
| My Heart's In The Highlands [radio Scotland] | ...Wry comedy drama about ROBERT BURNS and the wonder of song, in which the poet himself appears in the kitchen of a woman preparing a Burns supper.... |
| Palace Of Laughter, The | ...Geoffrey Wheeler probes the west coast venue's unique staying power and its connection to Scotland's best-loved bard ROBERT BURNS.... |
| Poetry Please | ...01: At the mid hour of night - Thomas Moore [0.52] 02: A woman's last word - Robert Browning [1.19] 03: Clover - Liz Lochhead [1.03] 04: Childe Rolandine - Stevie Smith [1.47] 05: A man's a man for A' that - ROBERT BURNS [1.50] 06: The story of Mrs W - Dorothy Parker [1.00] 07: The strange music - G. K. Chesterton [1.24]... |
| Postscript | ...Five poets read a newly commissioned verse letter to a poet from the past they admire. 2: Kathleen Jamie writes to ROBERT BURNS about growing up in modern SCOTLAND and about devolution.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley talks to historian Niall Ferguson, whose musical choices include Schubert, Beethoven, Wagner, ROBERT BURNS and Cannonball Adderley.... |
| Rab Remix, The [radio Scotland] | ...Three of Scotland's most exciting new music-makers give an entirely modern take on ROBERT BURNS.... |
| Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert | ...Scottish soprano Lisa Milne and pianist Malcolm Martineau explore subjects as diverse as love, Mary Queen of Scots and monkeys in a recital inspired by Scottish literature. With music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Borders-born Francis George Scott, setting texts by Walter Scott and ROBERT BURNS among others.... |
| Reel Blend [radio Scotland] | ...Join Robbie Shepherd for a very special Reel Blend celebrating ROBERT BURNS' 250th Anniversary. The programme is packed with guests, and listeners' favourite songs and tunes.... |
| Reel Blend | ...As BBC Radio Scotland celebrates ROBERT BURNS' 250th anniversary, Robbie is joined by singer and entertainer Eddie Reader.... |
| Rowallan Consort | ...Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Andy Hunter (singer/lowland pipes), Rob MacKillop (18th-century guitar), William Taylor (clarsach), Steve Player (cittern/baroque guitar), Alison McGillivray (cello). Traditional songs to the words of ROBERT BURNS from the Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803). Ca' the yowes; Banks of the Devon; The slave's lament; Whistle o'er the lave o't; Scots wha hae; A man's a man for that; I'll gang nae mair tae yon toun; Ae fond kiss; My love is like a red, red rose; There'll never be peace until Jamie comes hame; Hey ca' thro; John Anderson, my Jo; Auld lang syne.... |
| Songlines [radio Scotland] | ...John Cavanagh takes a look at A Man's A Man, ROBERT BURNS' famous democratic song of liberty and freedom, in which he takes a pot shot at the pretensions of the ruling class.... |
| Songlines | ...John Cavanagh explores the famous rivalries surrounding A Red, Red Rose by ROBERT BURNS.... |
| Sunday Feature | ...... |
| Tam O'shanter | ...Catherine Czerkawska's play is based on and tells the story of ROBERT BURNS's famous poem. With Liam Brennan, Gerda Stevenson and Sheila Donald. Director Hamish Wilson.... |
| Very Scottish Homecoming, A | ...ROBERT BURNS... |
| Words And Music | ...The poet and novelist Jackie Kay introduces a selection of poetry and prose on the theme of slavery and freedom including work by Langston Hughes, Fred D'Aguiar, Emily Dickinson, ROBERT BURNS and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Including music inspired by slavery and freedom by Bessie Smith, Paul Robeson, Beethoven and The Blind Boys of Alabama.... |
| Work In Progress | ...Film director Vadim Jean talks about his latest project, a film about ROBERT BURNS ... |
| Write Stuff, The | ...ROBERT BURNS... |