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BBC Radio Scotland is growing an archive all of Robert Burns's poetic works. Esme Kennedy and veteran producer Dave Batchelor have recorded performances by some of Scotland's best-loved actors (as well as two others) and a team from the University of Glasgow has provided the many guides featured throughout this website. 327 recordings are available now, with more to follow over the next two years.

Learning and Teaching Scotland and The Cast have recorded some of Burns's works. In addition, the Scottish Poetry Library has published a book of contemporary responses to a selection of Burns's poems.

  1. age (10 works)
  2. anguish (6 works)
  3. bawdry (18 works)
  4. beauty (14 works)
  5. brotherhood (16 works)
  6. class (15 works)
  7. cuckoldry (4 works)
  8. death (50 works)
  9. drink (19 works)
  10. equality (11 works)
  11. farming (9 works)
  12. fatherhood (5 works)
  13. food (5 works)
  14. friendship (28 works)
  15. future (12 works)
  16. greed (3 works)
  17. humour (45 works)
  18. hypocrisy (8 works)
  19. jacobitism (13 works)
  20. love (94 works)
  21. man (25 works)
  22. marriage (26 works)
  23. nationalism (20 works)
  24. nature (57 works)
  25. poetry (14 works)
  26. politics (3 works)
  27. poverty (12 works)
  28. regret (42 works)
  29. religion (27 works)
  30. revolution (9 works)
  31. royalty (4 works)
  32. seduction (35 works)
  33. sex (23 works)
  34. sexuality (1 works)
  35. supernatural (11 works)
  36. unhappiness (23 works)
  37. war (15 works)
  38. woman (39 works)
  39. work (9 works)

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