Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796), was the author of Auld Lang Syne and My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Prince Charles will be heard in a special audio project in which the 600-plus works of Scottish poet Robert Burns will be recited.

The BBC Scotland project got a boost this week when the Prince of Wales visited its offices in Glasgow to recite two of his favourite poems by Burns: My Heart's In The Highlands and My Love is like a Red Red Rose.

"Burns still resonates hugely more than two centuries after he penned over 600 poems and songs, both here in Scotland and beyond," said BBC Scotland's head of radio, Jeff Zycinski. "This project will ensure that his works are available to everyone for years to come."

The three-year project will see all of Burns's works read out by a host of well-known figures including actors Robert Carlyle, Alan Cumming, Robbie Coltrane and Brian Cox.

The project has its official launch Sunday to mark the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth.

It will part of an even bigger launch of a year of celebrations in Scotland, some 300 events in all, with the government asking those of Scottish heritage to visit their mother land.

"This is the start of an extraordinary, celebration — a once in a 250-year celebration — of the lasting legacy of Robert Burns and the country that he loved," said Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond, who plans to have a traditional Burns night supper in the Bard's hometown of Alloway on Sunday evening.

Salmond will be digging into a meal of haggis — minced sheep's heart, liver and lungs mixed with onion, oatmeal, suet, stock and salt, all boiled in the animal's stomach.

Britain's Royal Mail is planning to issue a set of commemorative stamps of Burns, with one one featuring the words of one of his best-known poems, A Man's A Man For A' That.

Written in 1795, the poem became an anthem of the slavery abolitionists and was sung at the opening of the Scottish parliament in 1999.

Born on Jan. 25, 1759, Burns — the author of Auld Lang Syne — died when he was just 37.