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Everything you never wanted to know about the bagpipes

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While the bagpipes are the national instrument of Scotland, how global is their history? The first written account of someone playing the bagpipes was Nero in the first century - was he playing them while Rome burned? How do you explain the absence of she-pipers in their history? And who were the pipers responsible for the first case of Scottish Nationalist terrorism in the 1940s.

Guest: Richard Maclauchlan. author of The Bagpipes: A Cultural History (Hurst)

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While the bagpipes are the national instrument of Scotland, how global is their history? The first written account of someone playing the bagpipes was Nero in the first century - was he playing them while Rome burned? How do you explain the absence of she-pipers in their history? And who were the pipers responsible for the first case of Scottish Nationalist terrorism in the 1940s.

Guest: Richard Maclauchlan. author of The Bagpipes: A Cultural History (Hurst)

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