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An Interview with Billy Kay

Writer and broadcaster Billy Kay was born in Galston, Ayrshire in 1951, and educated at Galston High School, Kilmarnock Academy and Edinburgh University. He produced and presented documentaries on Scottish cultural history for BBC Radio Scotland, winning five international awards for series like The Complete Caledonian Imbiber. He is co-author, with Cailean Maclean of the book Knee Deep in Claret. He is a passionate advocate of the Scots language and author of the classic work Scots: The Mither Tongue. His book on the phenomenal global influence of the Scottish diaspora The Scottish World was published in 2006. In November 2023 he published his memoir in Scots, Born in Kyle, which he describes as a love letter to an Ayrshire childhood. In addition to his native languages, Scots and English, Billy speaks French, German, and Portuguese. He is married to Maria João de Almeida da Cruz Diniz and they have three children and four grandchildren.

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