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Freedom Come All Ye?

Episode 6 of 7

Series exploring the history of the Scottish language with Billy Kay. He asks if MacDiarmid's 'plastic' Scots and old rural dialects can come to terms with modern urban speech.

A series of documentaries on the history of the Scots language written and presented by Billy Kay. (Revised repeat)

Today city dialects are often despised - even by Scots language enthusiasts. Can MacDiarmid's 'plastic' Scots and the old, rural dialects come to terms with developing urban speech in the 1980s?

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Sep 2016 07:00

Broadcasts

  • Tue 20 Sep 2016 13:30
  • Sun 25 Sep 2016 07:00

Scots: A Living, Thriving Language

Billy Kay discusses Scots and explores it's relevance to past and future generations.