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Kintra Episodes

  1. Celebrating Burns Night with guests Dr Frank Ferguson and chef Paula McIntyre in words and music with the Kintra Team

    Celebrating Burns Night with guests Dr Frank Ferguson and chef Paula McIntyre.

  2. 17/01/2021

    Ulster-Scots stories, news, music and banter. Email the team at kintra@bbc.co.uk

  3. A Bangor bard’s words newly published, honours for sewing tartan togs, and the refurb of Ballycopeland mill is almost finished.

    A Bangor bard’s back in print, honours for Granny Greta, and refreshing Millisle’s mill.

  4. 03/01/2021

    Ulster-Scots stories, news, music and banter. Email the team at kintra@bbc.co.uk

  5. Looking back the Kintra team’s favourite moments from the last year – and there were lots!

    Looking back at the Kintra team’s favourite moments from 2020.

  6. Opening our Ulster-Scots Christmas box with seasonal offerings in words, music and banter from the Kintra team.

    Kintra’s Ulster-Scots Christmas box is opened with seasonal warm in words and music.

  7. 13/12/2020

    Ulster-Scots stories, news, music and banter. Email the team at kintra@bbc.co.uk

  8. 06/12/2020

    Ulster-Scots stories, news, music and banter. Email the team at kintra@bbc.co.uk

  9. A sweet treat behind the first window of Kintra’s Advent Calendar, writing Ulster-Scots in a new story, and connecting to 007.

    A treat for Kintra’s Advent Calendar, a tale of 007 and Ulster-Scots in a new story.

  10. It’s Ulster-Scots language week and our guests have a love of words – Paul Clark (UTV) and Ian Crozier (Ulster-Scots Agency).

    Language week on Kintra with Paul Clark (UTV) and Ian Crozier (Ulster-Scots Agency).

  11. Painting the Maine Lambeg drum, exploring the “Brian Boru pipes” and a family reaction to an old soldier’s voice from the past.

    Painting a Lambeg, exploring the “Brian Borus” and reactions to a voice from the past.

  12. A voice from the Somme – recordings just found of a veteran remembering the battle, and from Portavogie, memories of the GI’s.

    Remembering the Somme, a veteran’s tells his story in newly discovered recordings.

  13. Printing your own bagpipe chanter, storytelling Ulster-Scots on Radio and a drop of ‘still’ – medicinal of course!

    Printing a bagpipe chanter, “Sons of the Sod” for Storyteller and a yarn about poteen.

  14. A children’s story-book illustrator, and for the end of October, Ulster-Scots poems and yarns to send a shiver up your spine.

    Meeting the children’s book illustrator and Ulster-Scots yarns to give you the creeps.

  15. Readers young and old join the team this week with ideas for books in – or about – Ulster-Scots.

    Readers young and old join the team with ideas for books in – or about – Ulster-Scots.

  16. A hedgerow harvest to set you up for the long winter days, and memories from Portavogie.

    Making the most of the hedgerow harvest, and memories galore from Portavogie.

  17. 04/10/2020

    A word to inspire photography, a fisherman’s poetry and Dungannon’s Ulster-Scots history.

  18. A new home in the USA, Cup O’Joe’s bluegrass journey, paddle-boarding in Portrush and Ulster-Scots history in Ballywalter.

    Cup O’Joe’s bluegrass journey, paddle-boarding and Ulster-Scots history in Ballywalter.

  19. A book to help Ulster-Scots children talk about these unusual days, poems old and new and a look back to the original feis.

    A book about ‘The Feardie Geng’, poems old and new and a look back to the first feis.

  20. A whiskey barrel hobby, taking the floor for decades of dancing, the joys of a market gardening and a song for a ‘garden’ prom.

    Whiskey barrel furniture, surprises and joy from the market garden and a song for a prom.

  21. Music for mental health, a local author’s new novel, Ulster-Scots for virtual assistants and introducing the Bard of Dunclug.

    Music for mental health and language matters for writing and for your virtual assistants.

  22. Making music together again after months apart, the joys of cold-water swimming and boosting Ulster-Scots in the North-West

    The joys of cold-water swimming and getting together again to make music.

  23. Meeting the American “King” with an Ulster-Scots heritage, uniforms by appointment and looking back at “The Worlds”.

    Meeting the “King” with an Ulster-Scots heritage, and looking back at “The Worlds”.

  24. 09/08/2020

    Ulster-Scots stories, news, music and banter. Email the team at kintra@bbc.co.uk

  25. Rab’s at the centre of Tyrone’s Plantation, Sylvia’s trying to see a rare comet and Helen “meets” a listener from Virginia.

    A Plantation town visited, a comet missed, and a Virginian with links to Ballynahinch.

  26. Blue-badge Ulster-Scots in the Maiden City, finding a playwright in the family tree and poems for wee people.

    Blue-badge Ulster-Scots, a playwright in the family tree and poems for wee people.

  27. The fallen Armada tree, a degree in bag-piping, a danner close to home on The Twelfth in days gone by and a song to win a wife.

    A degree in bag-piping, dannering close to home on The Twelfth and a winsome hairt-sang.

  28. 12/07/2020

    Ulster-Scots stories, news, music and banter. Email the team at kintra@bbc.co.uk

  29. 05/07/2020

    Helen Mark and the Kintra team with the weekly Ulster-Scots magazine programme.

  30. 28/06/2020

    Helen Mark and the Kintra team with the weekly Ulster-Scots magazine programme.

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