Sky - Bagpipes a Celebration

I guess not. We live in Canada and use an android box to get all our British tv. I haven't seen a way to get Catch Up.

Do you have the facility to get it on Catch Up?

Hi. I watched this program on the 18th or 19th and loved it. I want my husband to see it. Does anyone know when Sky Arts will show it again?

Bagpipes are in my blood I'm disappointed that I won't be able to watch this

Nongrannymoll that half tone sings to my heart and soul The drone of the pipes is haunting and I have an album ,a pop(ish) album where the singers voice replicated the drone of the pipes on a sad love song.Its magic

I love the sound of bagpipes. They are so evocative. When I was little I used to take the tail feathers of pheasants, cross them on the floor, and do a Scottish dance around them, arms held in the air. As far as I’m aware I don’t have any Scottish blood at all. Alan Breck in Kidnapped said “Am I no a bonny fighter.” The pipes tell it all.

The bagpipes are a wonderful sound bringing their own atmospheric comfort. Some folk are so negative. The Red Hot Chilly Peppers are magnificent. Some just don’t recognise comforting excellence. Long live all pipers and may they all have a wonderful New Year. Bless you all xx

Love the sound of the pipes, unfortunately my 2yr old cocker will howl whenever she hears them.
We’re not sure if she’s ‘singing’ along or trying to drown them out!
Embarrassingly she also howls when she hears a bugle- we didn’t know and went to watch the local Remembrance parade last year. You’ve never seen 2 OAPs move so fast while half dragging half carrying a dog.We laugh now but at the time ..

Ceol mor, the big music, or pibroch, is played on a single instrument.. it is slow and I find it beautiful played outdoors.

Highland regiments went into battle to the sound of pipe music.. There is grainy film of the battle of El Alamein with a piper playing in clouds of sand dust. Pibroch is quite sad music. I always think of all the young men of my blood who must have died with the pipes as the last sound in their ears..

As a proud Scot I should love the sound of the bagpipes, but I’m not a fan of the street performers, but love watching the Edinburgh tattoo. Hearing the massed bands play the Highland Cathedral almost brings me to tears.

Think Scotland the Brave should be the "anthem" for Scotland instead of that dirge of a song sung at every national event. Scotland the Brave is great bagpipe music.

There is a world apart between good piping and bad.

I’m another who is not a fan of the pipes but I do have a saved you tube clip of the pipes and drums at the late Queen’s funeral and although it was a desperately sad occasion, I could listen to that all day long.

I really detest the sound of bagpipes. It's the only musical instrument I don't like

For me, the sound of the bagpipes is just about the most unmusical sound of any instrument but I admit that, in the right surroundings, they are atmospheric

I despise the sound of bagpipes, I always have done. The sound used to scare the hell out of my cat. Not nowadays, the cat''s dead. One programme I won't be watching.

There was a very nice blind man where I worked. He had a lovely guide dog. We all felt very sorry for the poor dog when the man took up the pipes. Over time he improved but I still remember the agonised face on the poor dog in the early days.

As a former, not very good but enthusiastic piper I can only second all the positive comments on here. Those that can pipe well really are amazing and the pipes are difficult to perfect but easy to sound dreadful, like the violin

No we don’t have Sky. Mostly Amazon, Netflix and other American garbage unfortunately. We do have YouTube and I’ll check that out.

Namsnanny

Do come back and give us your verdict, although I'm sure it will be positive, Freya5🎵🎶

Fair play to the drummers also 🥁

Oh no, I missed it, got busy as you do. Hoping to see it at some point, but can only catch up with, now,sky or virgin, non of which I have. Might appear on you tube.
Totally agree with drums too. The Royal Marines are amazing at that too.
I'm sure it was wonderful. 😔

Even more enjoyable the second time round. Have just listened to Highland Cathedral ( my favourite). The scenery is stunning.

One of my cousins was a World Champion Piper. He also composed music. I love the pipes but realise others may not.

If they could have aired the programme without a musical background, it would've suited me down to the ground. I love everything to do with music, except certain instruments which make me want to throw bricks through glass! It's probably very difficult to play the bagpipes, all the more so because the instrument can't produce every note they need to even on standard Scottish tunes. The sound of that half-tone flat or sharp --- oooh, I'm looking round for bricks now, I shouldn't have started this reply. ;>

Oh yes. Pipe band drumming is an art. I was so impressed by a young school band last summer. The pipers were great and it was lovely when they stopped and gave the drummers a chance of a solo. I was almost in tears with happiness that such youngsters were so good so soon. Gave me hope for the future of piping. They were all under 14.

Yes we were having coffee out somewhere and DH started talking about the second law of thermodynamics,
and I remembered why I married him.
Or at least one of the reasons.....