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Episode 25


By Scots Language Radio

Episode 25

In this oor special New Year Edition, we hiv pleasure in featurin an extended interview wi writer and broadcaster Fiona Ritchie MBE. Fiona produces and presents her Celtic roots radio programme, Thistle and Shamrock, tae audiences a oor North America. In this edition o Scots Radio, Fiona tells us aboot her new book  ‘Wayfaring Strangers’  co-written by Doug Orr,  an the story o the journey made by Scots-Irish migrants in the eighteenth and nineteenth century to the USA and the southern Appalachian region.  Enjoy the journey, the stories and the music.