Kintra Episodes Episode guide
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The Ulster-Scots connection to the Boston Tea Party 250 years ago and would you know your corbies from your cushats?
Bringing tea to Boston’s harbour and looking after the birds in winter.
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Prose, poetry, music and Doctor Who!
Prose, poetry, music and Doctor Who!
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Wee rhymes for language week, a musical swap – from snares to timpani, and living the good life near Slemish.
Wee rhymes, an oul’ han’ at Ulster-Scots, a band swap and living the good life.
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New writing in Ulster-Scots, children rehearsing poetry and songs for a competition, and a lesson in being a Drum Major.
Poems, songs and information about Leid Week (Ulster-Scots Language Week).
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Stories and memories from the war years – real and imagined
Remembering the first and second world wars.
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Scots Radio, St Andrew’s Society, Leid Loanen and some very special music
Scots Radio, St Andrew’s Society, Leid Loanen and some very special music.
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Celebrating 25 years of the Schomberg Society in Kilkeel and a couple of creepy, seasonal yarns
An Ulster-Scots celebration at Stormont and yarns for Halloween.
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Celebrating John Clifford in Larne, remembering Ballyhalbert’s past and reawakening an old pipe band.
Larne’s John Clifford exhibition, Ballyhalbert history and awakening the QE Pipe Band.
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Talkin Tay on television, talking about motorcycles on stage, and learning Ulster-Scots the natural way – told in a poem.
Talking Tay on TV, a motorbike drama on stage, and learning Ulster-Scots the natural way.
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A house in Springhill, dancing in Ballycastle, history in Cullybackey and lectures in Londonderry
Springhill, Cullybackey, Ballyclare and Londonderry.
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Weaving Words and Threads
Celebrating the poetry of Sarah Leech, an early 19th-century spinner and poet.
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When we were 16 and a trip to Lough Neagh.
When we were 16 and a trip to Lough Neagh.
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Ideas for learning more about Ulster-Scots culture and heritage – and a photographic competition.
A new season for learning about and engaging with Ulster-Scots activities.
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Musical notes from Belfast’s Tattoo, Donaghadee’s famous lifeboat, and might a ‘Scots Writer of the Year’ be an Ulsterman?
Belfast’s Tattoo, a refurbished lifeboat, and could a local writer win a Scottish award?
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A trip to The Worlds and Seamus Heaney’s love of Ulster-Scots.
A trip to The Worlds and Seamus Heaney’s love of Ulster-Scots.
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A trip to Islay, Queen of the Hebrides.
Willie Hill and Paula McIntyre visit Islay.
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Helen Mark chats with the President of the Royal Scottish Pipe Band Association, George Ussher.
Helen Mark meets the president of the RSPBA, George Ussher.
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The Ulster Fry World Championships, building hammered dulcimers and an Ulster-Scots love story that put a business on the map
All about the ‘makes’: an Ulster Fry, a dulcimer and from spades to world class engines.
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Piping at TradFest, a Belfast gathering for poets, Ulster-Scots schemes for children and 'Galway Bay' down the Ards
Rab hears about piping at TradFest, and there’s news of a Belfast gathering for poets.
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Remembering Pipe Major Alec Brown, meeting the boy racing on two wheels, and the real teddy-bears picnic behind the song.
Legends in the piping world, songwriting and, maybe in the making, on two wheels.
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23/07/2023
Ulster-Scots stories, news, music and banter. Email the team at kintra@bbc.co.uk
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Jonnie Crawford chats to long-time Ulster-Scots enthusiast, Sally Young.
A conversation with long-time Ulster-Scots enthusiast, Sally Young.
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Visiting the All-Ireland Pipe Band Championships.
Visiting the All-Ireland Pipe Band Championships.
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Willie Hill chats with Roberta Heaney of Kilkeel’s Schomberg Society to hear about her passion for all things Ulster-Scots
Kilkeel’s Ulster-Scots festival and community radio, and reasons to write this summer.
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Media training for Ulster-Scots enthusiasts, the hunt for WW2 artefacts, a spudcraw trail, and ways to discover Groomsport.
Media training for the Ulster-Scots, finding WW2 artefacts, and ideas for summer trips.
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An animated 'Granda' heads off round Ulster, writing in Ulster-Scots give new purpose, and a fresh start for the piping world.
A new animation for children, a new voice to writing, and a new leader for pipers.
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A new poetry resource for schools, a poet with the heart of a teenage rocker, and connecting Carrickfergus Castle to Australia.
A new school poetry resource, a poet’s surprising heart-song, and a yarn about a photo.
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Heritage Day in Raphoe, battle notes from Donegore, and a potted history of Cullybackey’s Covenanters
Heritage Day in Raphoe, battle notes from Donegore, and Psalm singing dissenters.
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Hymn with an Ulster-Scots connection, a new collection of poems and a dander round Coagh.
Hymns from Ballyclare, a new collection of poems and a dander round Coagh.
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On the road this week, from Raphoe to the Ards Penninsula and along the East Coast
Raphoe’s Heritage Day to old recordings and photos from Carrickfergus and Islandmagee.