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Scottish radio presenter and well known author, Billy Kay, has published a new edition of his book ‘Scots: the Mither Tongue’.

He tells Liam Logan that he wants Scots people to find out more about their own history and language - and about the changes there have been over the past twenty years since the book first came out, not least of which is the new Scottish Parliament.

Billy has included a chapter on Ulster-Scots in his book and he tells Liam how it was his County Antrim friend, Linde Lunney, who made him aware of the similarity between the Antrim and Ayrshire dialects.

Billy says some Scots words that have survived in Ulster have actually died in Scotland: and he also talks about the unifying influence of the language.

Liam and Billy discuss the lack of a ‘language strategy’ in Scotland. (Broadcast: 19 Mar 2006)