Burns Banter S2 Ep5 - Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - The Kilmarnock Edition
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look at how, why and when Robert published his book, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. We look at the problems he had to overcome before John Wilson agreed to ...
5 Jul 202420min
Burns Banter S2 Ep4 - Mossgiel, Women and a Book
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look briefly at Robert's father, William - Then a Farm called Mossgiel - Roberts turbulent private life and a book called 'Poem Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect'. Th...
28 Jun 202419min
Burns Banter S2 Ep3 - Lochlea, Tarbolton & Irvine
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we see the Burns family move to a new farm, Lochlie. Is it better than Mount Oliphant? How well / badly do they do there? At this point in Roberts life he is in his l...
21 Jun 202424min
Burns Banter S2 Ep2 - Mount Oliphant & Roberts first poems
Send us Fan Mail In this episode we look at Robert life from age 7. We look at his education, the schools and tutors he had. We look at the farm that Roberts Father moved the family to, (Mount Oliphan...
14 Jun 202418min
Burns Banter S2 Ep1 - Robert Burns birth & early life
Send us Fan Mail In Series two of Burns Banter I am taking a look at the life of Robert Burns. Each episode will look at one part of Robert's Life - as this is episode one, I am looking at the Birth O...
7 Jun 202412min
Burns Banter - Ep. 21 - Robert Burns 'The Rights of Women'
Send us Fan Mail The Rights of Women was written by Robert Burns in 1792. Back in the days of Burns women didn't have many rights. The subject of women's rights was highly unpopular and very rarely t...
13 Mar 20248min
Burns Banter Ep. 20 Robert Burns - Address to the Toothache
Send us Fan Mail Address to the Toothache, written in 1786. In the late 1700's dentistry didn't really exist. If you got the toothache you had to just deal with the pain, there was no pain relief. If...
2 Mar 20247min
Burns Banter - Ep. 19 A Robert Burns Quiz in Sweden
Send us Fan Mail This week I am working in Stockholm. I managed to get two English colleagues, Jim and Ru, to take part in a Burns quiz. The quiz is made up of two rounds of 10 questions, with the se...
23 Feb 202415min
