The BBC is celebrating 100 years of broadcasting in Scotland. Among the usual trivialisation of Scotland’s culture, this gem seems to have been overlooked.
Because we’ve never had Scots language broadcasting – and through the archives it’s amazing how little Scots there is and how hard it is to hear a Dundonian speak in Dundee Scots in any broadcast in the last century – we haven’t had that communal understanding that we share a language.
Alistair Heather