PEEBLES

This lecture is not part of the Tweeddale Society's winter programme.  Members of the Society must therefore purchase tickets  from the
Eastgate Theatre Box Office.  Ticket price includes a glass of wine

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Writer and broadcaster Billy Kay was born in Galston, Ayrshire in 1951, and
educated at Edinburgh University. His company Odyssey Productions produces
documentaries for BBC Radio Scotland.  A new edition of his classic work Scots: The Mither Tongue came out in 2006 while his latest book The Scottish World was recently published in paperback in Britain, Canada and America. Billy has given talks on Burns, wine, the Scots language and the Scottish diaspora at venues as diverse as the Edinburgh
International Festival and the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
Billy Kay is passionate about Scotland and its people's phenomenal influence around the world, and he communicates that passion with a great deal of knowledge,
humour and love.

For more information about Billy visit:  http://www.billykay.co.uk