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Helen Mark is in Alloway in Ayrshire, where Robert Burns was born in January 1759. Rab Wilson is the Scots Scriever at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, and he reads a lively new verse celebrating a wheen of reciters of the bard's work. Helen hears from curator Sean McGlashan about some of the treasures the museum holds that are directly associated with the poet, and at the Burns Cottage, in the very room where Scotia's Bard was born, Hugh Farrell gives a moving recitation of a Burns poem. Professor Gerry Carruthers of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies at Glasgow University tells Helen about its latest work; at the annual Robert Burns Conference Jean Brittain and Carol Baranuik talk about their regard for the poet, and songs by Burns are performed by Siobhan Millar and Robyn Stapleton.