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IT'S been a peculiar week for haggis, one minute borne aloft on the ritual platter of praise, the next, condemned by the food police to languish in the same health-warning category as Turkey Twizzlers. Now, as proof of the chieftan pudding's versatility, radio has given us the three-cornered wonder of the haggis-andneeps samosa. And why not? In death, if not in life, Robert Burns himself must have undergone more impressionistic make-overs than Rory Bremner.
But in these days of Burns revisited, reclaimed and even reinvented, few celebrations can have been as scrumptiously original as Sanjeev Kohli's tribute to the poet. With assembled guests in Ravi Burns (Radio Scotland, Tuesday), Kohli's merry feast brought together the unmistakable lilt of Alasdair Gray intoning The Selkirk Grace over this Scottish-Asian update on tradition. The principal purpose of the event, of course, was to honour the universality of Burns, although Kohli - known to many as nutty Naveed in television's, Still Gameemerged as a bit of a Punjabi McGonagall by throwing in a couple of odes of his own.See the full content of this document
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Here's a Sonsie Samosa
However, the programme's added bonus was that it restored some creative credit to Radio Scotland which too easily could have resorted to the usual cliches on an annual theme, or pandered to...
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