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From: The Sunday Herald
Date: 20060122
Author:Jenifer Johnston

JACK McConnell has spoken of how, as a boy, he fell in love with the poetry of Robert Burns on Burns night at a village social club. In a Radio 1 programme the First Minister chats about music, his attachment to the bard's work as well as his family memories of Burns Night on the Radio 1 special tomorrow, which also features interpretations of the ploughman poet's work by over 20 bands including Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura and The Delgados.

McConnell says: "One of my earliest memories was going to the local Burns club in the village on the island where I grew up [Arran] where my ...

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