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The Thistle & Shamrock: Ballads Of The Border

Kathryn Tickell, accomplished player of the Northumbrian pipes, is featured in this week's show.
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Kathryn Tickell, accomplished player of the Northumbrian pipes, is featured in this week's show.

This week's show features music inspired by the rolling hills and moorland of the border country between Scotland and England, a landscape of forbidding beauty with a turbulent history of feuds, raids and conflict. Hear songs from Archie Fisher, Capercaillie, Kathryn Tickell and more.

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