
Completely Burns
Beware o Bonie Ann
00:56 | Dec 11th, 2010
Richard Wilson reads this song written 'out of compliment to Miss Ann Masterton, the daughter of my friend Allan Masterton’, who became writing master at the High School in Edinburgh.
O wert thou in the Cauld Blast
00:59 | Dec 4th, 2010
Read by Juliet Cadzow and written in honour of Jessie Lewars, a friend of the family, who nursed Burns during his final illness and helped Jean with their many children after his death.
The Fete Champetre
Ay Waukin O
01:17 | Nov 24th, 2010
Lorraine McIntosh reads this hauntingly beautiful song in which a lover laments being parted from their beloved and cannot sleep.
Theniel Menzies Bonie Mary
01:02 | Nov 20th, 2010
Burns stopped at Stonehaven, near the River Dye, on 10 September 1787 to meet some relatives. The model for this song may have been a popular bawdy song of the time. Read by Phyllida Law.
Pegasus at Wanlockhead
00:55 | Nov 13th, 2010
Liz Lochhead reads this poem which Burns penned after being unable to persuade a local Farrier to attend to both his and friend Thomas Sloan's horses which were slipping on the ice.
To the Weavers gin ye go
01:53 | Nov 8th, 2010
To The Weaver’s Gin Ye Go tells a cautionary tale - mothers, take the wool to the weaver's yourself! Read by Shirley Henderson