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Burns on the ´óÏó´«Ã½

Alistair Mooney Alistair Mooney | 10:00 UK time, Tuesday, 13 January 2009

With 25th January 2009 being the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland is recording all of his poetic works, performed by some of Scotland's best-loved actors.

Robert Burns

You can listen to the works published so far, read by Brian Cox, Hannah Gordon and John Gordon Sinclair. Related radio and tv programmes are being shown this month which you can catch on the iPlayer, currently including the second part of Andrew O'Hagan's The World According to Robert Burns, John Cavanagh exploring A Man's a Man For A' That on Songlines and Eddi Reader joining Robbie Shepherd on Reel Blend.

On the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Robert Burns website you can find out more about the man and how to hold your own Burns Supper. As well as links on the website, have a look at , a blog of , posted on the days they were written, and follow the National Trust's ayrshirebard on Twitter to receive sent on a daily basis.

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