Regular readings
For the past four years, Neil has been recording regularly extracts from the works of Robert Burns. These can be heard here on the website or at the WordsofBurns Facebook page.
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Neil is always delighted to get feedback from listeners or suggestions for Burns works to record.
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Recent Posts
October 26, 2017
Click here to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/i-hae-been-at-crookieden
Although there is a real place called Crookieden, near Laurencekirk, the name in this context refers to Hell. The words below comprise another pro-Jacobite expression by Robert Burns. “...
October 19, 2017
Click here to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/nithdales-welcome-hame
Robert Burns often expressed Jacobite sympathies, believing that his forebears were ‘out’ in support of the deposed Stuart monarchy in 1715. He considered Mrs Winifred Constable-Maxwell...
October 5, 2017
Click to listen: https://soundcloud.com/words-of-burns/yon-wild-mossy-mountains
It is thought that this piece was inspired by a meeting between Robert Burns and a Lanarkshire girl he happened to meet when making his way to Edinburgh in 1787. I have recorded an extract b...
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