Main content

The Scots Tongue Episodes

  • All
  • Available now
  • Next on

  1. The Future's Oors

    7/7 Billy Kay interviews activists who worked to get Scottish language on the 2011 census.

  2. Freedom Come All Ye?

    6/7 Billy Kay asks if 'plastic' Scots and rural dialects can come to terms with modern speech.

  3. Split-Tongued Sourocks

    5/7 Burns's legacy survives in Ayrshire, despite 18th- and 19th-century fashions of speach.

  4. The Confusion of Union

    4/7 After the union of Scotland and England, Scots had to learn a new language - English.

  5. The Buchan Heartland

    3/7 Billy Kay looks at how Grampian is now one of the strongest Scots-speaking areas.

  6. Makars to Miners

    2/7 Billy Kay looks at the speech of Fife miners in his series about the Scottish language.

  7. The Border Ground

    1/7 Billy Kay explores the links between the Borders dialect and the national language.