Battle of the Bagpipes combines the stories of pipe bands from Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Armed Forces with a history of the instrument - Peter Devlin/Sky Settle down to Battle of the Bagpipes ...

Soldiers come from all over the UK to the Army School of Bagpipe Music and Highland Drumming at Redford Barracks in Edinburgh. There’s one subject missing from the sign, presumably to avoid scaring ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

“It emphasises the effort that goes into reaching the top level of competition, with pipe majors who give it everything” “It is a very traditional documentary, which picks out some individual stories ...

The musical instrument and uniform, devised as instruments of war centuries ago, are today considered the epitome of cool. Jonathan Vigliotti reports: Every spring, when Scotland thaws and roars back ...

They are louder than the noise of a chainsaw. More piercing than than a jet plane taking off. They can cause you permanent ear damage and even ruin your marriage. They are Scotland's national musical ...

BILL MILLIN, the "mad piper" who defied enemy fire to play on the beach during the D-Day landings, yesterday denied that he had misled a museum by presenting them with the wrong set of pipes. The ...

TOUR bosses have come up with a sewer-fire way of keeping rats away from sightseers in the drains of Vienna - the bagpipes. Health chiefs had closed down the popular Third Man tours of the Austrian ...

Settle down to Battle of the Bagpipes (Sky Arts) and enjoy Scotland’s most mellifluous sound. No, not the music, but the voice of actor Bill Paterson providing the narration for this series which ...

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