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Kintra Episodes

  1. Stories and memories from the war years – real and imagined

    Remembering the first and second world wars.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. A house in Springhill, dancing in Ballycastle, history in Cullybackey and lectures in Londonderry

    Springhill, Cullybackey, Ballyclare and Londonderry.

  7. Weaving Words and Threads

    Celebrating the poetry of Sarah Leech, an early 19th-century spinner and poet.

  8. When we were 16 and a trip to Lough Neagh.

    When we were 16 and a trip to Lough Neagh.

  9. 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.

  10. 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?

  11. 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.

  12. A trip to Islay, Queen of the Hebrides.

    Willie Hill and Paula McIntyre visit Islay.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 23/07/2023

    Ulster-Scots stories, news, music and banter. Email the team at kintra@bbc.co.uk

  18. Jonnie Crawford chats to long-time Ulster-Scots enthusiast, Sally Young.

    A conversation with long-time Ulster-Scots enthusiast, Sally Young.

  19. Visiting the All-Ireland Pipe Band Championships.

    Visiting the All-Ireland Pipe Band Championships.

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

  23. 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.

  24. 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.

  25. 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.

  26. 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.

  27. Family footsteps, Harry Ferguson and Cup O’Joe

    Family footsteps, Harry Ferguson and Cup O’Joe.

  28. A trip to the Steam Rally at Shane’s Castle and looking ahead to the NW 200

    A trip to the Steam Rally at Shane’s Castle and looking ahead to the NW 200.

  29. A US senator is taught his first Ulster Scots word, and a song fit for the King

    A senator is taught his first Ulster Scots word, and we learn a song fit for the King.

  30. Who was known as the 'king of the wild frontier' and what were his connections to the Ulster-Scots?

    Davy Crockett and Sam Houston’s local roots, Dervock’s new yarns and Ballymoney’s Tattoo.

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