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Bagpipe quiz

Bagpipe rockers the Red Hot Chilli Pipers have helped us create a music quiz with a difference. Can you name that tune?

Jazz it up

Scotland is bursting with talented jazz and blues artists and plays host to vibrant festivals in some unusual, and offbeat locations.

Robert Burns Birthplace Museum

New museum to help preserve Robert Burns' poetry, passion and the Scots tongue officially open.

Burns Festival

A look at the 'Burns an a' that!' festival which takes place every May in Ayrshire.

Archaeological treasures

Scotland is an archaeologist's El Dorado: full of historical treasures that just scrape the surface of the land.

Lasting inspiration of Robert Burns

What is it about Robert Burns? Not even Shakespeare is remembered so personally with an annual birthday celebration.