Completely Burns

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2010-12-11

  Beware o Bonie Ann

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. 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2010-12-04

  O wert thou in the Cauld Blast

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. 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2010-11-29

  The Fete Champetre

When William Cunninghame of Enterkine, Tarbolton came of age, he held a supper and ball, or Fete Champetre, on the banks of the Ayr to which most of the respectable families in the county were invited. Some thought he was using the event as an introdu... 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2010-11-24

  Ay Waukin O

Lorraine McIntosh reads this hauntingly beautiful song in which a lover laments being parted from their beloved and cannot sleep. 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2010-11-20

  Theniel Menzies Bonie Mary

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. 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2010-11-13

  Pegasus at Wanlockhead

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. 		  BBC Radio Scotland author
2010-11-08

  To the Weavers gin ye go

To The Weaver’s Gin Ye Go tells a cautionary tale - mothers, take the wool to the weaver's yourself! Read by Shirley Henderson 		  BBC Radio Scotland author