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The Saltire Sessions: Billy Kay

A blether with writer, broadcaster and Scots language champion Billy Kay

About the Saltire Sessions

The ‘Saltire Sessions’ are free-to-access online discussions with the creators and thinkers shaping the cultural landscape of Scotland today. We hope these conversations will offer you food for thought, signpost you to new and thought-provoking books, events and other cultural activity, and perhaps inspire you in your own creative pursuits. Each is designed to slot into a lunchbreak or similar time in your day.

In this Session, we sit down with writer, broadcaster and commentator Billy Kay. We dive into Billy’s programmes, his books, and his passion for the history of Scots and Scotland, at home and overseas.

I was aware, linguistically aware and hyper sensitive to languages from a very early age

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