Burns Banter - Your Bard! (Edinburgh Fringe Show 2025)
Send a text I am performing a show called 'Burns Banter - Your Bard' at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It is all about the darker side of Robert Burns, with drinking songs and poems you probabl...
7 Aug 202510min
Burns Banter S2 Ep12 - Robert Burns Death
Send a text In this episode we look at the last few years of Robert Burns life, his death., and what happened after that. Where did he die? What caused his death? . We look at what was happening in hi...
1 Mai 202523min
Burns Banter S2 Ep11 - Dumfries
Send a text In this episode Robert leaves Ellisland farm and moves to Dumfries. We look at his work as an excise officer and a famous incident involving Robert attacking a smugglers Schooner on the So...
4 Mar 202520min
Burns Banter S2 Ep10 - The Ellisland Years
Send a text In this episode Robert has moved from Edinburgh To Ellisland Farm, which is by the banks of the river Nith, about 6 and a half miles north of Dumfries. He has become a farmer again, as wel...
9 Jan 202529min
Burns Banter S2 Ep9 - Big Decisions
Send a text What does Robert Do after the the fame of being a great Poet in Edinburgh and touring around Scotland? He has to make some big decisions about his future. In this episode of Burns Banter ...
20 Des 202418min
Burns Banter S2 Ep8 - Touring around Scotland
Send a text It is 1787, Robert Burns has published the second edition of his poems, now known as 'The Edinburgh Edition'. He has sold the rights to all of his poems to William Creech and he needs to w...
9 Aug 202444min
Burns Banter S2 Ep7 - The Edinburgh Edition
Send a text In this episode I talk about Robert Burns journey to Edinburgh to produce a second volume of his book 'Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect'. I also talk about the reception he received w...
29 Jul 202433min
Burns Banter S2 Ep6 - Burns Banter Live ! 16th - 25th Aug 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Send a text In this Episode I talk about my up coming shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Yes, I'm taking Burns Banter to Edinburgh and will be performing upstairs in The Pear Tree. The venue is c...
12 Jul 202415min
