{"id":3236,"date":"2015-02-19T10:04:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T10:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2015-03-02T12:17:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T12:17:00","slug":"introducing-scots-language-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/introducing-scots-language-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Scots Language Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/scots-podcast\/\">Scots Language Radio<\/a> is a one hour monthly podcast supported by Creative Scotland and the Scots Language Centre.  They use the Scots Language Centre&#8217;s website as our platform. Frieda Morrison produces and presents the programme and travels over Scotland doing interviews for each episode. <\/p>\n<p>Each programme covers a wide range of topics based on the Culture &#8211; trad arts and skills. It&#8217;s not a programme that looks back at the past all the time &#8211; their mission is to &#8216;normalise&#8217; the Scots Language and feature people who can speak or understand Scots &#8211; doing something of interest within the heritage\/arts\/skills arena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<em>Language is what happens when you&#8217;re doing something else&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The first programme went out in December 2013 &#8211; and from that very special start &#8211; SLR has grown it&#8217;s listenership and has a following  of thoosans of listeners all over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The programme tries to keep the subject matter relevant to what&#8217;s happening in Scotland now and keep people informed about what&#8217;s happening re the arts and culture scene &#8211; without making it exclusive.  But in the end it&#8217;s basically it&#8217;s just a very good listen!<\/p>\n<p>Frieda has been joined in the studio every month, by musician and folklorist Steve Byrne who contributes his knowledge of the seasonal customs &#8211; his expertise on all things historical and of course musical. <\/p>\n<p>The network o fowk is growin bi the day.  Wir nae staanin aboot &#8211; wir gaan aboot.<\/p>\n<p>Have a listen! <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/scots-podcast\/\">http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/handsupfortrad\/scots-podcast\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scots Language Radio is a one hour monthly podcast supported by Creative Scotland and the Scots Language Centre. They use the Scots Language Centre&#8217;s website as our platform. Frieda Morrison produces and presents the programme and travels over Scotland doing interviews for each episode. 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