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Helen Mark, Jonnie Crawford and Rab Lennox are joined by Dr Pauline Holland and Dr Frank Ferguson to take a look at the remarkable life of Sarah Leech, who lived in the early 1900s. She was a hard working spinner who took to poetry, becoming amongst the first female Ulster Scots speakers to be published 鈥� albeit without her permission! We鈥檒l hear excerpts of a play written about her life, her poetry (read by Lolly Spence) and a discussion around how she was a prototype feminist, of sorts.
Later, we hear 鈥楾hreeds鈥� written and read by Steve Dornan before Dr Linda Bollard talks further on some of the more unique sewing and weaving which has a connection to the Ards peninsula and became known as Ayrshire work.鈥�
Finally, an invitation to celebrate the life of another remarkable Ulster Scot - John Clifford.
As always, listeners are invited to contact the programme with a good Ulster-Scots yarn or event to talk about. The easiest way to do that is by email - kintra@bbc.co.uk.