The World Pipe Band Championships, Musician Lisa Dawson and Changing Attitudes to Ulster-Scots

Helen Mark MBE presents BBC Radio Ulster’s weekly Ulster-Scots magazine this week alongside, Rab Lennox, Jonnie Crawford and Willie Hill. Rab has a full report from the The World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. There’s truly an international feel – as he chats to musicians from Australia, Malaysia and Germany! Willie spends time with and enjoys music from Islandmagee’s Lisa Dawson who explains how she ended up incorporating so much Ulster-Scots into her work. Jonnie hears from two academics about a survey revealing attitudes towards Ulster-Scots are changing for the better. There’s also a quick yarn about Ballymena ‘founding father’ Robert Adair chasing a preacher out of the town with a sword….
As always, listeners are invited to contact the programme with a good Ulster-Scots yarn or event to talk about. The easiest way to do that is by email – kintra@bbc.co.uk