Folk fae Derval in Ayrshire hae mind o their wark in the touns lace mills, an auld poacher fae Kilmaurs in Ayrshire talks aboot his trade, vauntie that
he wes able tae poach saumon in a famous estate in Aiberdeenshire an ae man, Jimmy Dunnachie that steyed in the Ayrshire kintraeside an anither man, Wullie Morrison that bidit in the miners raws in Gawstoun  mind o the wey o life there an conseider their mither tongue.

Billy Kay haes been daein interviews wi fowk in Scots fae the early 1980s. We spiered gin Billy cuid delve intae his soun archive an wale a wheen passages that he felt wes braw examples o the kinna Scots fowk in thir airts spak at the time.  For mair information on Billy, veisit  http://www.billykay.co.uk. Some o the oral history collectit here appears in the quairs edited by Billy and available fae yer local library: Odyssey Voices from Scotlands Recent Past; Odyssey The Second Collection and The Complete Odyssey. As weel as thir buiks,  Billy also scrievit Scots The Mither Tongue which is stull in prent.