Scots soundbytes
© Hulton Getty / SCRAN
Four of the downloadable sound files in this section are taken from The Kist / A'Chiste anthology, a groundbreaking collection of Scottish texts in English, Scots and Gaelic that was published by the Scottish CCC in 1996. The texts were all accompanied by audio versions and many of the soundtracks were recorded by schools and donated by local authorities. The master recordings were edited by Scotsoun.
For the last 30 years Allan Ramsay and George Philp of Scotsoun have worked tirelessly to make recordings of Scots prose, poetry, plays, songs and everyday speech.
Their first cassette 'Poems by Robert Fergusson' was released in 1974 and since then Scotsoun has recorded many makars, sangsters, fiddlers and pipers.
The Scots Language Society has been entrusted with the custodianship of the Scotsoun archive and retail enquiries are also handled by them.
Also in this section is a recording from West Lothian's 'Telling Tongues' project - a song written and recorded by the pupils of Greenriggs Primary School in collaboration with the songwriter Gillian Bowman.