BBC Radio Scotland - The works of Robert Burns -

To mark the 250th anniversary of Burns’s birth, some of Scotland’s biggest names recorded his works for BBC Radio Scotland. Explore them here...

1771-9, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796

A Ballad [While prose work and rhymes] (Alex Norton)
A Bard's Epitaph (John Gordon Sinclair)
A dedication to Gavin Hamilton Esq (Gerry Mulgrew)
A Dream (Siobhan Redmond)
A Fiddler In The North (David Rintoul)
A Fragment (David Hayman)
A Fragment [Ballad on the American War] (Alex Norton)
A Fragment [When first I came to Stewart Kyle] (Douglas Henshall)
A Grace After Dinner (Vivien Heilbron)
A Grace Before Dinner (Vivien Heilbron)
A Lass Wi A Tocher (John Gordon Sinclair)
A Man's a Man for A' That (First Minister Alex Salmond)
A Mother's Lament (Vivien Heilbron)
A new Psalm for the chapel of Kilmarnock (Laura Fraser)
A Penitential thought, in the hour of Remorse - Intended for a Tragedy (Jonathan Watson)
A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter (John Gordon Sinclair)
A Prayer in the Prospect of Death (Brian Cox)
A Prayer, Under the Pressure of violent Anguish (Shirley Henderson)
A sonnet upon sonnets (Kate Dickie)
A Tale (Derek Riddell)
A Toast. Lines on the Commemoration of Rodney's Victory (David Hayman)
A Verse composed and repeated by Burns (Daniela Nardini)
A Waukrife Minnie (John Cairney)
A Winter Night (Phyllis Logan)
Act Sederunt of the Session (Paul Young)
Adam Armour's Prayer (Gerry Carruthers)
Address Of Beelzebub (Maureen Beattie)
Address to a Haggis (John Gordon Sinclair)
Address to General Dumourier (Liz Lochhead)
Address to the Deil (Liam Brennan)
Address To The Toothache (Richard Wilson)
Address To The Unco Guid (Phyllis Logan)
Address to the Woodlark (Simon Donald)
Address, to the shade of Thomson, on crowning his bust, at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with bays (Phyllida Law)
Adown winding Nith I did wander (Simon Tait)
Ae Fond Kiss (Paul Higgins)
Allan water (Simon Tait)
Altered from an old English song (Joyce Falconer)
Altho' He Has Left Me (Maureen Beattie)
An Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to the Excise (Paul Young)
And I'll kiss thee yet, yet (Tam Dean Burn)
Andrew And His Cutty Gun (Gerda Stevenson)
Anna Thy Charms (John Gordon Sinclair)
Annotations in Verse (Lorraine McIntosh)
Answer to an Invitation (Shirley Henderson)
As I cam down by yon castle wa' (Douglas Henshall)
As I cam o'er the Cairney Mount (Blythe Duff)
As I look'd over yon castle wa' (Douglas Henshall)
As I was a wand'ring (Clare Grogan)
As I went out ae May morning (Tam Dean Burn)
At Brownhill Inn (Eddi Reader)
At Roslin Inn (Billy Boyd)
At Whigham's Inn, Sanquhar (Laura Fraser)
Auld Lang Syne (Denis Lawson)
Auld Rob Morris (Paul Higgins)
Awa Whigs Awa (Alison Peebles)
Banks of Cree (Cal Macaninch)
Bannocks O' Bear Meal (Elaine C Smith)
Behold The Hour The Boat Arrive second version (David Rintoul)
Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive (David Rintoul)
Bessy and her Spinning Wheel (Crawford Logan)
Beware o' Bonie Ann (Richard Wilson)
Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787 (Gerda Stevenson)
Blyth Will an' Bessie's Wedding (Gary Lewis)
Blythe hae I been on yon hill (John Ramage)
Bonie Bell (Simon Donald)
Bonie Dundee (Siobhan Redmond)
Bonie Jean (Karen Dunbar)
Bonie Laddie, Highland Laddie (Annette Crosbie)
Bonie Mary (Ralph Riach)
Bonnie Peg (Bill Paterson)
Braw Lads O Galla Water (Phyllis Logan)
Broom Besoms [A] (Alex Norton)
Broom Besoms [B] (Alex Norton)
Brose and Butter (Juliet Cadzow)
Burns Grace at Kirkcudbright (Annette Crosbie)
Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (2nd version) (Annette Crosbie)
Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes (Gerda Stevenson)
Caledonia (Crawford Logan)
Can you leave me thus, my Katy (Gary Lewis)
Carl an the king come (Liz Lochhead)
Castle Gordon (Dawn Steele)
Cauld Frosty Morning (Gary Lewis)
Cauld is the e'enin blast (Paul Young)
Charlie, He's My Darling (Siobhan Redmond)
Clarinda (Mistress of my soul) (Gerry Mulgrew)
Cock Up Your Beaver (Alan Cumming)
Come let me take thee to my breast (John Ramage)
Come Rede Me Dame (Alan Cumming)
Comin' O'er the Hills o' Coupar (Derek Riddell)
Comin' thro' the Rye (Karen Dunbar)
Comin' thro' the rye [alternate version] (Kate Dickie)
Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell (Ian McDiarmid)
Composed In August (Bill Paterson)
Composed in Spring (Gerry Carruthers)
Corn Rigs (Crawford Logan)
Country Lassie (Alison Peebles)
Craigieburn wood (Douglas Henshall)
Cuddie the Cooper (Elaine C Smith)
Dainty Davie (Siobhan Redmond)
Death and Doctor Hornbook (Alan Cumming)
Delia (Derek Riddell)
Denty Daivy (Siobhan Redmond)
Despondency (Maureen Beattie)
Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington (Ian McDiarmid)
Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat (Ralph Riach)
Down the burn Davie (Alison Peebles)
Dumfries Epigrams (Paul Young)
Duncan Davidson (Gerry Mulgrew)
Duncan Davison (Dawn Steele)
Duncan Macleerie (Denis Lawson)
Dusty Miller (Shirley Henderson)
Elegy on Captain MH, A gentleman who held the patent for his honours immediately from almighty god (Phyllida Law)
Elegy on Mr William Cruikshank A.M. (John Bett)
Elegy on Peg Nicholson (Gary Lewis)
Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux (Tom Fleming)
Elegy On The Death of Sir James Hunter Blair (Siobhan Redmond)
Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo (Alan Cumming)
Elegy on the year 1788 (Kate Dickie)
Ellibanks (Kate Dickie)
English Song (Alison Peebles)
English Song (Stella Gonet)
Epigram (Dawn Steele)
Epigram Addressed To An Artist (Crawford Logan)
Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, The Celebrated Antiquary (Simon Tait)
Epigram on Mr James Gracie (Alan Cumming)
Epigram On Rough Roads (Phyllis Logan)
Epigrams on Lord Galloway (Laura Fraser)
Epistle from a Taylor to Robert Burns (Paul Higgins)
Epistle To A Young Friend (Ralph Riach)
Epistle to Captain William Logan at Park (David Hayman)
Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet (Ian McDiarmid)
Epistle to Dr Blacklock (Denis Lawson)
Epistle to Hugh Parker (Billy Boyd)
Epistle To J. Lapraik (David Rintoul)
Epistle to James Smith (Gerry Carruthers)
Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock (Bill Paterson)
Epistle to Mr Tytler of Woodhouselee, Author of a Defence of Mary Queen of Scots (Simon Donald)
Epistle to Robert Graham Esq: of Fintry on the Election of the Dumfries string of Boroughs, Anno 1790 (Simon Tait)
Epistle To The Rev. John M'math (John Sessions)
Epitaph (Derek Riddell)
Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton Esq (Paul Higgins)
Epitaph for Hugh Logan (Clare Grogan)
Epitaph for J H Writer in Ayr (Laura Fraser)
Epitaph For Mr Walter Riddell (Crawford Logan)
Epitaph for Robert Aiken Esq; (Elaine C Smith)
Epitaph for the Author's Father (Jonathan Watson)
Epitaph For William Nicol (John Gordon Sinclair)
Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder (Paul Higgins)
Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire (Richard Wilson)
Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic (Jonathan Watson)
Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline (Blythe Duff)
Epitaph on D- C- (Annette Crosbie)
Epitaph On Holy Willie (John Sessions)
Epitaph on John Bushby Esq (Alan Cumming)
Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper (Daniela Nardini)
Epitaph on Mr Burton (Lorraine McIntosh)
Epitaph on my own friend, and my father's friend, William Muir in Tarbolton (Gerda Stevenson)
Epitaph On Robert Muir (John Gordon Sinclair)
Epitaph on Tam the Chapman (Elaine C Smith)
Epitaph on Wee Johnie (Elaine C Smith)
Epitaph On Wm. Graham, Esq of Mossknowe (Lorraine McIntosh)
Epitaph. Here lies Robert Fergusson, Poet (Barbara Rafferty)
Eppie Mcnab (Tam Dean Burn)
Errock Brae (Juliet Cadzow)
Esteem For Chloris (John Ramage)
Extempore (on The Loyal Natives' Verses) (Cal Macaninch)
Extempore - On being shown a beautiful Country seat belonging to Maxwell of Cardoness (Liz Lochhead)
Extempore - on some commemorations of Thomson (Phyllida Law)
Extempore (Paul Higgins)
Extempore reply to an invitation (Tam Dean Burn)
Extempore to Mr Gavin Hamilton (Tam Dean Burn)
Extempore, in the Court of Session (Barbara Rafferty)
Fair Eliza (Alex Norton)
Fair Jenny (Lorraine McIntosh)
Farewell Thou Stream (Lorraine McIntosh)
Farewell to Eliza (Phil McKee)
Farewell to the Banks of Ayr (Clare Grogan)
For the sake o' Somebody (Blythe Duff)
Frae the friends and Land I love (Shirley Henderson)
Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria (Dougray Scott)
Fragment - Why, Why Tell Thy Lover (Lorraine McIntosh)
Fragment (Derek Riddell)
Fragment [Montgomery's Peggy] (Simon Tait)
Galloway Tam (Daniela Nardini)
Geordie - An old Ballad (Eddi Reader)
Gie The Lass Her Fairing (Crawford Logan)
Godly Girzie (Tam Dean Burn)
Grace after Meat (Shirley Henderson)
Green Grow The Rashes (John Gordon Sinclair)
Green grow the rashes [alternate version] (Dougray Scott)
Green grow the rashes [an older edition] (Dougray Scott)
Green Sleeves (Gerry Carruthers)
Grim Grizzle (Jonathan Watson)
Gude Wallace (Ralph Riach)
Gudeen to you kimmer (Paul Higgins)
Had I a cave (John Ramage)
Had I the wyte she bade me (Simon Donald)
Halloween (Ralph Riach)
Handsome Nell (Liam Brennan)
Here awa', there awa' (Shirley Henderson)
Here's a bottle and an honest friend (Alex Norton)
Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear (Cal Macaninch)
Here's a health to them that's awa (Barbara Rafferty)
Here's His Health In Water (Hannah Gordon)
Here's to thy health my bonie lass (Midge Ure)
Hey Ca' thro (Barbara Rafferty)
Hey for a Lass wi' a Tocher (Simon Donald)
Hey tuti tatey (Tam Dean Burn)
Highland Laddie (Multiple Readers)
Highland Lassie O (Gary Lewis)
Highland Mary (David Rintoul)
Holy Willie's Prayer (Richard Wilson)
How can I keep my maidenhead (Laura Fraser)
How lang and dreary is the night (Laura Fraser)
Hughie Graham (Gary Lewis)
I do confess thou art sae fair (Barbara Rafferty)
I Dream'd I Lay (Elaine C Smith)
I hae a wife o my ain (Alex Norton)
I look to the North (Daniela Nardini)
I Love My Jean (Denis Lawson)
I Love My Love In Secret (Hannah Gordon)
I Rede you beware o' the Ripples (Alison Peebles)
I Reign In Jeanie's Bosom (David Rintoul)
I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town (Bill Paterson)
I'll mak you be fain to follow me (Phil McKee)
I'll Tell You a Tale of a Wife (Dawn Steele)
I'm o'er young to Marry Yet (Daniela Nardini)
Impromptu On Mrs Riddell's Birthday, 4th November 1793 (Stella Gonet)
In answer to one who affirmed of a well-known Character here, Dr Babington, that there was Falsehood in his very looks (Stella Gonet)
In the character of a ruined Farmer (Gerry Carruthers)
Inconstancy in Love (Paul Higgins)
Inscription on a Goblet (Lorraine McIntosh)
It is na, Jean, thy bonie face (Douglas Henshall)
It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King (Annette Crosbie)
Jamie Come Try Me (Phyllis Logan)
Jenny Macraw (Simon Tait)
Jeremiah 15th, Ch 10 V (Tam Dean Burn)
Jessie A New Scots Song (Crawford Logan)
Jockey Fou and Jenny Fain (Simon Donald)
Jockey was a Bonny Lad (Shirley Henderson)
Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss (Gerda Stevenson)
John Anderson My Jo (Eileen McCallum)
John Anderson my Jo [alt] (Eileen McCallum)
John Barleycorn: A Ballad (Liam Brennan)
John come kiss me now (Daniela Nardini)
Johnie Blunt (Juliet Cadzow)
Johnie Cope (Alison Peebles)
Johnie Scott (Karen Dunbar)
Jumpin John (Daniela Nardini)
Kellyburnbraes (Paul Higgins)
Ken ye na our Lass, Bess? (Simon Donald)
Ken ye ought o' Captain Grose? (Simon Tait)
Killiecrankie (Alison Peebles)
Lady Mary Ann (Gerda Stevenson)
Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky (Annette Crosbie)
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn (John Cairney)
Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher (Hannah Gordon)
Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring (Phyllis Logan)
Lassie lie near me (Phil McKee)
Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks (Liam Brennan)
Leezie Lindsay (Karen Dunbar)
Let me in this ae night (Paul Higgins)
Letter to James Tennant, Glenconner (Gary Lewis)
Libel Summons (Robbie Coltrane)
Lines Addressed to Mr John Ranken (Blythe Duff)
Lines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanac (Phyllis Logan)
Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer (Brian Cox)
Lines on Stirling (Cal Macaninch)
Lines on the Fall of Fyers, near Loch Ness (Dawn Steele)
Lines sent to John Syme of Ryedale (Bill Paterson)
Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart (Dougray Scott)
Lines To A Gentleman (John Sessions)
Lines To An Old Sweetheart (David Hayman)
Lines written in the kirk of Lamington (Kate Dickie)
Lines Written on a Banknote (Liam Brennan)
Lines Written on a window at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries (John Bett)
Lines written on windows of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries (Kate Dickie)
Lines, wrote by Burns, while on his deathbed (Douglas Henshall)
Logan Braes (Gerda Stevenson)
Logan Water (Phil McKee)
Lord Gregory (Laura Fraser)
Lord Ronald My Son (Annette Crosbie)
Love In The Guise Of Friendship (Phyllis Logan)
Lovely Davies (John Cairney)
Lovely Polly Stewart (Midge Ure)
Madgie cam to my bed stock (Billy Boyd)
Man Was Made To Mourn (Bill Paterson)
Mark Yonder Pomp (Crawford Logan)
Mary Morison (Ralph Riach)
McPherson's Farewell (Paul Young)
Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle (Ralph Riach)
Monody on Maria (Stella Gonet)
Muirland Meg (Gerry Carruthers)
Musing On The Roaring Ocean (Gerda Stevenson)
My Auntie Jean held to the shore (Laura Fraser)
My Bonie Bell (David Rintoul)
My bony Mary (John Bett)
My Collier laddie (Alex Norton)
My Eppie (Billy Boyd)
My Father was a Farmer (Simon Donald)
My girl she's airy (Gerry Carruthers)
My Harry was a Gallant gay (Joyce Falconer)
My Heart's In The Highlands (HRH The Prince of Wales)
My love she's but a lassie yet (Simon Tait)
My Luve is like a Red Red Rose (HRH The Prince of Wales)
My Nanie, O (Jonathan Watson)
My Nanie's Awa (Stella Gonet)
My Peggy's Face (Gary Lewis)
My Tochers the Jewel (Eddi Reader)
My Wife's a wanton wee thing (Denis Lawson)
My wife's a winsome wee thing (Dougray Scott)
Nae Hair On't (Gary Lewis)
Nature's Law (Paul Young)
Nithsdale's Welcome Hame (Gerry Carruthers)
No Churchman am I (Phil McKee)
No Cold Approach (Maureen Beattie)
O An Ye Were Dead Gudeman (Siobhan Redmond)
O ay my wife she dang me (Alex Norton)
O Bonie was yon rosy brier (Midge Ure)
O can ye labour lea (Vivien Heilbron)
O Can Ye Labour Lee, Young Man (Barbara Rafferty)
O dear Minny, what shall I do? (Alison Peebles)
O Gat ye me wi' naething (Cal Macaninch)
O gin I had her (Gerry Mulgrew)
O gude ale comes and gude ale goes (Crawford Logan)
O ken ye what Meg o' the mill has gotten (Elaine C Smith)
O Kenmure's On And Awa , Willie (David Rintoul)
O lay thy loof in mine lass (Paul Young)
O Leave Novels (Robert Carlyle)
O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet (Billy Boyd)
O poortith cauld and restless love (John Bett)
O Raging Fortune's Withering Blast (Juliet Cadzow)
O Saw ye bonie Lesley (Derek Riddell)
O saw ye my Maggie (Derek Riddell)
O Steer Her Up (John Gordon Sinclair)
O That I Had Ne'er Been Married (Brian Cox)
O this is no my ain lassie (John Ramage)
O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day (Tom Fleming)
O wat ye wha that lo'es me (John Bett)
O wat ye wha's in yon town (Phil McKee)
O were my Love yon Lilack fair (Simon Tait)
O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast (John Sessions)
O Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad (Elaine C Smith)
O, for ane and twenty Tam (Juliet Cadzow)
O, were I on Parnassus Hill (Billy Boyd)
Occasional Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her benefit night (Alison Peebles)
Ode [For General Washington's Birthday] (Liz Lochhead)
Ode to Spring (Richard Wilson)
Ode to the departed Regency bill 1789 (Liz Lochhead)
Ode, sacred to the memory of Mrs Oswald of Auchencruive (Phyllida Law)
O'er the Water to Charlie (Dawn Steele)
On A Bank Of Flowers (Hannah Gordon)
On A Dog Of Lord Eglingtons (Crawford Logan)
On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire (Joyce Falconer)
On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies (Blythe Duff)
On a Suicide One (Alan Cumming)
On a Suicide Two (Alan Cumming)
On An Innkeeper In Tarbolton (Crawford Logan)
On An Innkeeper Nicknamed The Marquis (Alan Cumming)
On Andrew Turner (Eddi Reader)
On being asked why God had made Miss D so little and Mrs A so big (Phyllida Law)
On Captain Lascelles (Lorraine McIntosh)
On Captain William Roddirk of Corbiston (Lorraine McIntosh)
On Chloris being ill (John Ramage)
On Chloris requesting me to give her a spray of a sloe-thorn in full blossom (Denis Lawson)
On Commissary Goldie's Brains (John Ramage)
On Findlater (Gary Lewis)
On Gabriel Richardson (Stella Gonet)
On James. Grieve, Laird of Boghead, Tarbolton (Eddi Reader)
On Jessy Lewars (John Bett)
On John McMurdo (Stella Gonet)
On John Morine, laird of Laggan (Liz Lochhead)
On Johnson's Opinion of Hampden (Kate Dickie)
On Marriage (Tom Fleming)
On Maxwell of Cardoness (Liz Lochhead)
On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr (John Ramage)
On Miss PK (Paul Young)
On Miss Wilhelmina Alexander (Gary Lewis)
On Mr Pit's hair-powder tax (Lorraine McIntosh)
On Robert Riddel (Lorraine McIntosh)
On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch Turit (Phyllis Logan)
On Seeing A Wounded Hare (Crawford Logan)
On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character (Barbara Rafferty)
On seeing Mrs Kemble in Yarico (John Ramage)
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born in peculiar circumstances of Family-Distress (Liam Brennan)
On the death of Echo, a Lap-dog (David Hayman)
On the death of John M'Leod, Esq. (Dawn Steele)
On the death of the late Lord President Dundas (Kate Dickie)
On the Duchess of Gordon's Reel Dancing (Clare Grogan)
On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland (Hannah Gordon)
On the seas and far away (Clare Grogan)
On Wee Johnie (Blythe Duff)
On Willie Chalmers (Paul Higgins)
One Night As I Did Wander (Phyllis Logan)
Open the door to me oh (Douglas Henshall)
Orananaoig, or The Song of Death (John Cairney)
Our John's Brak Yestreen (Daniela Nardini)
Paraphrase Of The First Psalm (Phyllis Logan)
Passion's Cry (Joyce Falconer)
Pegasus at Wanlockhead (Liz Lochhead)
Phillis The Fair (Lorraine McIntosh)
Philly And Willy (Multiple Readers)
Pinned to Mrs Riddell's carriage (John Ramage)
Poem addressed to Mr Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries (Cal Macaninch)
Poem on Life (Jonathan Watson)
Poem On Pastoral Poetry (Hannah Gordon)
Poetical Inscription, for An Altar to Independence at Kerroughtree, the Seat of Mr Heron, written in summer 1795 (Stella Gonet)
Poor Mailie's Elegy (Elaine C Smith)
Prayer - O Thou Dread Power [Lying at a Rev. Friend's house one night, the author left the following verses in the room where he slept] (Tam Dean Burn)
Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries (Hannah Gordon)
Prologue spoken by Mr Woods (Douglas Henshall)
Put Butter In My Donald's Brose (Siobhan Redmond)
Rantin' Rovin' Robin (Alan Cumming)
Rattlin' Roarin' Willie (Alison Peebles)
Raving winds around her blowing (Billy Boyd)
Remorse (Gerry Carruthers)
Reply to Robert Riddell [Robert Burns] (Alex Norton)
Revision for Clarinda (Crawford Logan)
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn (Liam Brennan)
Robert Burns' Answer [to 'Epistle from a Taylor to Robert Burns'] (Simon Donald)
Robin shure in hairst (Laura Fraser)
Rusticity's ungainly Form (Joyce Falconer)
Sae Far Awa (John Cairney)
Sandy and Jockie (Clare Grogan)
Saw Ye My Phely (Cal Macaninch)
Scotch Drink (David Rintoul)
Scotch Song (Lorraine McIntosh)
Scotish Ballad (Eddi Reader)
Scotish Song (Laura Fraser)
Scots Ballad (Gary Lewis)
Scots Prologue, for Mrs Sutherland's Benefit Night (Karen Dunbar)
Scroggam (Derek Riddell)
Second Epistle to Davie (Ian McDiarmid)
Second Epistle To J. Lapraik (David Rintoul)
Sensibility how charming (Paul Higgins)
She Rose and Loot Me In (Jonathan Watson)
She says she lo'es me best of a' (Douglas Henshall)
She's fair and fause (Gerry Mulgrew)
She's Hoy'd Me Out O' Lauderdale (John Cairney)
Sketch (Liz Lochhead)
Sketch for an Elegy (Phyllida Law)
Sketch New Year's Day. To Mrs Dunlop (Stella Gonet)
Sketch. Inscribed to the Right Hon. Ch. J. Fox Esq. (Stella Gonet)
Song [Tho' women's minds, like winter winds] (Simon Tait)
Song composed at Auchtertyre on Miss Euphemia Murray of Lentrose (Gerry Mulgrew)
Sonnet On Hearing A Thrush Sing (Crawford Logan)
Sonnet, on the death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glen Riddel, April 1974 (Phyllida Law)
Stanzas On the Same Occasion (Brian Cox)
Stay, my Charmer, can you leave me (Annette Crosbie)
Strathallan's Lament (Joyce Falconer)
Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation (John Sessions)
Supper is na ready (Annette Crosbie)
Sutors o' Selkirk (Gerry Carruthers)
Sweet Afton (Alan Cumming)
Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn (Tam Dean Burn)
Sweetest May (Bill Paterson)
Sylvander to Clarinda (Simon Donald)
Tam Glen (Joyce Falconer)
Tam Lin (Eileen McCallum)
Tam o' Shanter (Brian Cox)
Tam Samson's Elegy (Eileen McCallum)
The Answer, to the Guidwife of Wauchope-House (John Cairney)
The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie (Tom Fleming)
The Auld Man's mare's dead (Liam Brennan)
The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer (Alex Norton)
The Banks O' Doon (First Version) (Maureen Beattie)
The Banks O' Doon (Second Version) (Ian McDiarmid)
The Banks O' Doon (Third Version) (Gerda Stevenson)
The Banks of Nith (Shirley Henderson)
The Banks of the Devon (Dawn Steele)
The Battle Of Sherramuir (Robert Carlyle)
The Belles of Mauchline (Robert Carlyle)
The Birks of Aberfeldy (Annette Crosbie)
The Blue-Eyed Lassie (Cal Macaninch)
The Bob o'Dumblane (Dougray Scott)
The bonie lad that's far awa (Joyce Falconer)
The Bonie Lass Made The Bed To Me (John Cairney)
The Bonie Moor-Hen (Blythe Duff)
The Bonie Wee Thing (Alan Cumming)
The Bonniest Lass (Alan Cumming)
The Book Worms (Vivien Heilbron)
The Braes o' Ballochmyle (Liam Brennan)
The Braw Wooer (Phyllis Logan)
The Brigs of Ayr (Multiple Readers)
The Calf (Siobhan Redmond)
The Campbells are coming (Alison Peebles)
The Captain's Lady (Billy Boyd)
The Cardin' O't, the Spinnin' O't (Siobhan Redmond)
The Cares o' Love (Multiple Readers)
The Charming Month Of May (Tom Fleming)
The Cooper o' Dundee (Dawn Steele)
The Cotter's Saturday Night (Tom Fleming)
The Couper o Cuddy (Elaine C Smith)
The Dean Of The Faculty (Siobhan Redmond)
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe, An Unco Mournfu' Tale (Blythe Duff)
The Deil's awa wi' the Exciseman (Clare Grogan)
The Deuks dang o'er my Daddie (Paul Higgins)
The Farewell (John Cairney)
The Farewell. To the Brethren of St James's Lodge, Tarbolton (Crawford Logan)
The fete champetre (Phyllida Law)
The First Psalm (Juliet Cadzow)
The Five Carlins (Annette Crosbie)
The Fornicator (John Sessions)
The Gallant Weaver (Annette Crosbie)
The Gardener wi' his paidle (Annette Crosbie)
The German Lairdie (Elaine C Smith)
The Gowden Locks of Anna (Robbie Coltrane)
The Guidwife of Wauchope-House, to Robert Burns, the Airshire Bard (Denis Lawson)
The Henpecked Husband (Denis Lawson)
The Heron Ballads : Buy Braw Troggin (John Bett)
The Heron Ballads : John Bushby's Lamentation (David Hayman)
The Heron Ballads : The Election : A New Song (Derek Riddell)
The Highland Balou (Elaine C Smith)
The Highland Widow's Lament (Annette Crosbie)
The Holy Fair (Vivien Heilbron)
The Holy Tulzie (Simon Donald)
The Hue and Cry of John Lewars (Denis Lawson)
The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water (Bill Paterson)
The Jolly Beggars : Fiddlers Tune (Alan Cumming)
The Jolly Beggars : I am a bard of no regard (Gerry Mulgrew)
The Jolly Beggars : I am a son of Mars (Douglas Henshall)
The Jolly Beggars : John Highlandman (Hannah Gordon)
The Jolly Beggars : Love and Liberty - A Cantata (Multiple Readers)
The Jolly Beggars : Merry Andrew (Robert Carlyle)
The Jolly Beggars : My Bonie Lass I Work in Brass (Dougray Scott)
The Jolly Beggars : Sir Wisdom's a fool when he's fou (Tam Dean Burn)
The Jolly Beggars : Sodger Laddie (Maureen Beattie)
The Jolly Gauger (Derek Riddell)
The Keekin Glass (Liam Brennan)
The Kirk of Scotland's Garland (Kate Dickie)
The laddies by the banks o' Nith (Phyllida Law)
The Lament. Occasioned by the Unfortunate Issue of a Friend's Amour (David Hayman)
The Lass o' Liviston (David Hayman)
The Lass of Cessnock Banks (Phil McKee)
The Lass of Ecclefechan (Gerry Carruthers)
The Lassie Gath'ring Nits (John Cairney)
The Lazy Mist (Dawn Steele)
The lea-rig (Laura Fraser)
The Linkin' Laddie (Joyce Falconer)
The Lovely Lass o' Inverness (David Hayman)
The Lovers morning salute to his Mistress (Dougray Scott)
The Mauchline Wedding (Alan Cumming)
The Mill Mill-O. Original (Crawford Logan)
The Minstrel at Lincluden (Juliet Cadzow)
The Modiewark (Kate Dickie)
The Night was still (Barbara Rafferty)
The Ninetieth Psalm (Crawford Logan)
The Ordination (Derek Riddell)
The Patriarch (David Hayman)
The Ploughman - merry muses (Gerda Stevenson)
The Ploughman (Gerda Stevenson)
The Ploughman's Life (Gerda Stevenson)
The Primrose (Joyce Falconer)
The Rantin Dog, The Daddie O't (Phyllis Logan)
The Rantin Laddie (Gerda Stevenson)
The Reel O' Stumpie (Vivien Heilbron)
The Rights of Woman (Vivien Heilbron)
The Ronalds of the Bennals (John Cairney)
The Rosebud (Gerry Mulgrew)
The rowin't in her apron (Simon Donald)
The Seventh of November (Shirley Henderson)
The Shepherd's Wife (Alison Peebles)
The Slave's Lament (Elaine C Smith)
The small birds rejoice (Billy Boyd)
The Solemn League and Covenant (John Bett)
The Sons of Old Killie (Gary Lewis)
The Tailor (Annette Crosbie)
The Tarbolton Lasses (Alex Norton)
The Taylor (Shirley Henderson)
The Taylor fell thro' the bed (Gary Lewis)
The Toadeater (John Bett)
The Tree of Liberty (Robbie Coltrane)
The Trogger (Karen Dunbar)
The Twa Dogs (David Rintoul)
The Twa Herds (Maureen Beattie)
The Vision (Crawford Logan)
The Vision Suppressed (Crawford Logan)
The Weary Pund O Tow (David Rintoul)
The Whistle (Dougray Scott)
The White Cockade (Hannah Gordon)
The Winter It Is Past (Maureen Beattie)
The Wren's Nest (Fragment) (Elaine C Smith)
The Yellow, yellow Yorlin' (Phil McKee)
The Young Highland Rover (Blythe Duff)
Their groves o' sweet myrtle (Cal Macaninch)
Then Guidwife count the lawin (Barbara Rafferty)
Theniel Menzies bonie Mary (Phyllida Law)
There Cam A Cadger (Juliet Cadzow)
There cam a Soger (Daniela Nardini)
There Grows A Bonnie Brier Bush (Vivien Heilbron)
There was a bonie lass (Juliet Cadzow)
There Was Twa Wives (Paul Higgins)
There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame (John Cairney)
There's a youth in this city (Hannah Gordon)
There's hair on't (Billy Boyd)
There's news lasses news (Annette Crosbie)
There's three true gude fellows (Blythe Duff)
They took me to the Haly Band (Alex Norton)
Thine am I, my Chloris fair (John Ramage)
Third Epistle To J. Lapraik (David Rintoul)
Thou Gloomy December (Robert Carlyle)
Thou Hast Left Me Ever Jamie (Phyllis Logan)
Though fickle fortune has deceived me (Crawford Logan)
Tibbie Dunbar (Phil McKee)
Tibbie Fowler (Denis Lawson)
To a Louse (Robert Carlyle)
To A Mountain Daisy (Maureen Beattie)
To a Mouse (Brian Cox)
To a painter (Barbara Rafferty)
To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars (Cal Macaninch)
To Alexander Cunningham (Billy Boyd)
To Alexander Findlater (Simon Tait)
To Capt Gordon on being asked why I was not to be one of the party with him and his brother Kenmure at Syme's (Cal Macaninch)
To Captain Riddell (Alex Norton)
To Chloris (John Bett)
To Clarinda (Liam Brennan)
To Daunton Me (Joyce Falconer)
To Dr Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's recovery (Liz Lochhead)
To John Syme [A] (John Ramage)
To Maria (John Ramage)
To Mary in Heaven (Dougray Scott)
To Miss Ainslie, in Church (Simon Donald)
To Miss Cruickshank, a very young Lady (Cal Macaninch)
To Miss Graham of Fintry (Stella Gonet)
To Miss Logan (David Hayman)
To Mr E - on his translation of and commentaries on Martial (Tam Dean Burn)
To Mr Gavin Hamilton. Mauchline (Tam Dean Burn)
To Mr Graham of Fintry, On being appointed to my Excise Division (Cal Macaninch)
To Mr John Kennedy (Jonathan Watson)
To Mr McMurdo, with a pound of Lundiefoot Snuff (Dougray Scott)
To Mrs C (Tam Dean Burn)
To Peter Stuart (Dougray Scott)
To Renton of Lamerton (Gerry Mulgrew)
To Robert Graham Esq of Fintry Esq with a Request for an Excise Division (John Bett)
To Ruin (Derek Riddell)
To Symon Gray (Barbara Rafferty)
To Terraughty, on his birthday (Dougray Scott)
To the beautiful Miss Eliza J-n, on her principles of liberty and equality (Billy Boyd)
To the Hon Mr RM, of Panmure, on his high Phaeton (John Ramage)
To the Memory of the Unfortunate Miss Burns (Karen Dunbar)
To the Weaver's gin ye go (Shirley Henderson)
To W. Simpson, Ochiltree (Gerry Carruthers)
To William Stewart (Dougray Scott)
Twas na her bonie blue e'e (John Ramage)
Tweedmouth Town (Tam Dean Burn)
Up In The Morning Early (Ralph Riach)
Verses addressed to J Ranken (Douglas Henshall)
Verses intended to be written below a noble Earl's picture (Barbara Rafferty)
Verses written on a window of the Inn at Carron (David Hayman)
Verses written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece, In the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth (Joyce Falconer)
Versicles on Sign-posts (Liz Lochhead)
Wad ye do that? (Phil McKee)
Wae is my heart (Elaine C Smith)
Wee Willie Gray (Vivien Heilbron)
We're a' gaun southie, O (Douglas Henshall)
Wha is that at my bower door? (Eddi Reader)
Wha the Deil can hinder the wind to blaw? (Simon Donald)
Wha'll Mow Me Now (Maureen Beattie)
What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man (Eddi Reader)
What will I do gin my Hoggie die (Karen Dunbar)
When Princes and Prelates (Robert Carlyle)
When Wild War's Deadly Blast Was Blawn (Crawford Logan)
Where braving angry Winter's Storms (Paul Higgins)
Whistle O'er The Lave O't (Ian McDiarmid)
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary (Phil McKee)
Will ye na can ye na let me be (Stella Gonet)
Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut (Robbie Coltrane)
Wilt thou be my Dearie (John Ramage)
Winter A Dirge (Ian McDiarmid)
Written In Friars' Carse Hermitage (Liz Lochhead)
Written Under The Picture of the Celebrated Miss Burns (Cal Macaninch)
Ye hae lien wrang, Lassie (Gerry Carruthers)
Ye Jacobites By Name (David Rintoul)
Ye'se get a hole to hide it in (Joyce Falconer)
Yon wild mossy mountains (Gerry Mulgrew)
Yon, yon, yon lassie (Tam Dean Burn)
Young Jockey was the blythest lad (Daniela Nardini)
You're welcome, Willie Stewart (Kate Dickie)

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