Audio

Selection of Audio pieces:

The following are extracts from Odyssey Prouctions series for Radio Scotland. They were produced and presented by Billy Kay.

THE COMPLETE CALEDONIAN IMBIBER (4 X 26" and 4 X 30") audio
From the programme "Let Them Drink Port"!

MERCHANTS, PEDLARS, MERCENARIES ( 4 X 26") audio
On the Scots in 17th century Poland. This is also the subject of a chapter in The Scottish World.

SCOTLAND´S BLACK HISTORY (6 X 27") audio
The beginning of the series on Scotland´s links with Africa and Africans.

FREDOME IS A NOBLE THING (3 X 27") audio
The end of the series which looked at Scottish involvement in national liberation struggles. This is also the subject of a chapter in The Scottish World.

Here are two extracts from the book Scots: The Mither Tongue you can listen to Billy reading the final chapter here.

Here is an extracts from the CD Fergussons Auld Reikie which features the poetry of Robert Fergusson and the music of 18th century Edinburgh. The musicians are Rod Paterson, Derek Hoy, and Norman Chalmers of the band Jock Tamson´s Bairns and the late sairly lamentit Tony Cuffe. You can listen to it by clicking here.

Finally here are two extracts from the historic oral history series Odyssey which Billy produced for the BBC in the early 1980´s

Gallipoli tells the story of the ill–fated Gallipoli campaign in the First World War. You can listen to it by clicking here. This is also the subject of a chapter in the book The Complete Odyssey.

St Kilda had the voices of the last native inhabitants recalling the life on the island before the evacuation of 1930. You can listen to it by clicking here. This is also the subject of a chapter in the book The Complete Odyssey.