A Kist o Wurds - Series 15 - Programme 7

Willie presents a Kist full of music, poems and crack. He starts the programme at the launch of a new leaflet which has been produced by the Ulster-Scots Heritage Council - ‘Wean’s World’. Children from Balnamore Primary School sing one of the songs from the publication and give a few readings; and Sandra Perry from Edenbrooke Primary School on the Shankill Road and Andrews Castles from the USHC talks about their involvement with the leaflet. We find out how a Woody Guthrie song, ‘The Ballad of Tom Joad’ which tells the story of the film ‘The Grapes of Wrath’, has an Ulster-Scots link - before listening to Dick Gaughan’s version of the song from his 2001 CD ‘Outlaws and Dreamers’. Kist pays tribute to Guthrie and also to Steinbeck, author of The Grapes of Wrath, whose grandfather was a Hamilton from Ballykelly in Ulster. Wilbert Magill shares his memories of how the boys from the Ards Peninsula went ‘ower tha sheugh’ in his poem ‘Scotch Harvest’. Background music under the poem is two reels from a new CD by Clydebank musician, Ross Kennedy - ‘Scottish Voice and Acoustic Guitar’ - and we also hear a Robert Burns song from the CD - ‘The Tarbolton Lasses’.