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Scots in Canada

1. Runrig: ‘Alba’
2. ‘Canadian Boat Song’ (1829)
3. Longfellow: ‘Evangeline’ (1847)
4. A Breton Dance
5. Runrig: ‘The Mighty Atlantic’
6. William MacGibbon: ‘The Water is Wide’ (1762)
7. John Somerville: ‘Uallach Na Mara’
8. John Somerville: ‘Seinn a’Phiob’
9. John Prebble: ‘The Clearances’ (1963)
10. Lewis MacKinnon: ‘Splinters’
11. Lucille M. Campey: ‘After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773 – 1852’ (2004)
12. ‘The Dark Island’ (trad.)
13. Tom Devine: ‘To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750 – 2010’ (2011)
14. Alistair MacLeod: ‘Clearances’
15. Iain Peterson: ‘The Slopes of Ben Hiant’
16. John MacLean: ‘The Gloomy Forest’ (1819)
17. ‘Leaving Kingairloch, Ardnamurchan’ (sung by Margaret Maclennan)
18. Michael McDonald: ‘Fair is the Place’ (1775)
19. Daimh: ‘Moidart to Mabou’ (Strathspeys)
20. George Simson: ‘Coronach in the Backwoods’ (1859)
21. ‘A Canadian Lament’ (bagpipe solo)
22. John MacDonald: ‘A Gaelic Lament’ (1835)
23. Alistair MacLeod: ‘The Road to Rankin’s Point’ (1976)
24. ‘Patrick Og MacCrimmon’s Lament’ (played by Robert U. Brown)
25. Alistair MacLeod: ‘No Great Mischief’ (extracts)
26. Alasdair Macleod: ‘Cuir Culaibh Ri Asainte’ (‘Turning my Back on Assynt’)
27. Joanna van Kool; ‘The Followers’ (of Norman MacLeod)
28. Granville Bantock: ‘Celtic Symphony’ (2nd movement: Allegro con fuoco) (1940)
29. Thomas Crawley: ‘Stephen Wright’  (1827)
30. Margaret Atwood: ‘Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer’
31. Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘The Amateur Emigrant’ (1895)
32. Marjory Harper: ‘The Great Scottish Exodus’
33. Alice Munro: ‘The Wilds of Morris Township’ (from ‘The View from Castle Rock’, 2006)
34. Alistair MacLeod: ‘The Boat’ (1968)
35. John McGahern, on Alistair MacLeod’s ‘Island’ anthology (2001)
36. J. Watson Nicol: ‘Lochaber No More’
37. Thomas Faed: ‘The Last of the Clan’ (1865) and ‘Oh Why Left I My Hame?’
38. Walter Scott: ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ (1805)
39. Catriona Parsons: ‘Honour’
40. Granville Bantock: ‘A Hebridean Symphony’ (1st movement)