wandsworth Posted 14 June , 2014 Share Posted 14 June , 2014 Hi This Monday, 16th of June at 9pm, BBC2 Scotland are showing ‘Pipers of the Trenches’. http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2014/scotland-pipers Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 14 June , 2014 Share Posted 14 June , 2014 Looks fascinating. Us Sassenachs should be able to catch it on iPlayer in due course. Thanks for the tip off Rob David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 16 June , 2014 Share Posted 16 June , 2014 In many respects, an excellent programme. Peter Barton and his war-weary titfer did sterling duty and there was much droning and skirling. I had to replay a section to make sure that I had heard right - a chappie from the National Museum of Scotland (no less) Dr Stuart Allan said, pointing to the remains of a lighter on a Gallipoli beach: "I think this is the remains of a monitor (A MONITOR!!!!) - a small boat that's part of the ferrying of men and supplies". I think I need a lie down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Black Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 BBC I-player link here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sheldon Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 By the same team that produced The Machine Gun and Skye's Band of Brothers. I was unable to assist them this time because, despite intensive study of the German sources for twelve years now, I have only come across one fleeting reference to piping - on Day 2 of the Battle of Cambrai. Meanwhile the so far barren search for any mention of 'Devils in Skirts' continues. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 Was it this one, Jack ...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sheldon Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 Sadly not. That makes two. Where did you find it? Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 Someone sent it to me some years ago and unfortunately I have no idea where it came from. Presumably a regimental history. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sheldon Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 Oh well. I shall just have to keep my eyes open. By the way, if you can find me a German reference to 'Devils in Skirts', I shall buy you beer all evening. Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Jones Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 Someone sent it to me some years ago and unfortunately I have no idea where it came from. Presumably a regimental history. Mick I found it in the Westfalia book of Honour and posted it on the GWF about four years ago. S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sheldon Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 Thanks for the tip Simon. Only 550 large pages to check! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 In many respects, an excellent programme. Peter Barton and his war-weary titfer did sterling duty and there was much droning and skirling. I had to replay a section to make sure that I had heard right - a chappie from the National Museum of Scotland (no less) Dr Stuart Allan said, pointing to the remains of a lighter on a Gallipoli beach: "I think this is the remains of a monitor (A MONITOR!!!!) - a small boat that's part of the ferrying of men and supplies". I think I need a lie down. I was an ink monitor until my unfortunate trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 One quote: Die schottischen Soldaten sind Teufel trägt Kleider. Ihre Musik ist ekelhaft und ihre Manieren sind noch schlimmer. Niemand kann sie verstehen. Sie tragen nichts auf den Arsch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 What an excellent programme. I shall long remember Michael Stedman's harrowed face after he was played the noise of battle David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Abbott Posted 17 June , 2014 Share Posted 17 June , 2014 Has anyone who doesn't live in the UK, found the programme on any internet channel or similar? I'd love to watch it but the BBC doesn't permit access to people overseas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sheldon Posted 18 June , 2014 Share Posted 18 June , 2014 Grumpy, thanks for that. Can you provide the source and confirm that the quotation is precisely as it was written in the original? Jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Jones Posted 18 June , 2014 Share Posted 18 June , 2014 Thanks for the tip Simon. Only 550 large pages to check! Page 158! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 18 June , 2014 Share Posted 18 June , 2014 Grumpy, thanks for that. Can you provide the source and confirm that the quotation is precisely as it was written in the original? Jack I was being norty I fear. Please forgive weird sense of humour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 18 June , 2014 Share Posted 18 June , 2014 For those of us less blessed than others in European languages other than English and gibberish, is there any chance of translations for the foreign bits, please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoppage Drill Posted 18 June , 2014 Share Posted 18 June , 2014 This is what Google Translate will do for you. The Scottish soldiers are devil wears clothes. Their music is disgusting and their manners are worse. No one can understand them. They contribute nothing to the ass Hey ! Those wacko Huns eh ? I think the last sentence might be rendered "They do not wear underpants". "Tragen" translates usually as "carry" or - in the case of clothes, "wearing". Similarly, an Iron Cross recipient will be "eiserneskreuztrager" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sheldon Posted 18 June , 2014 Share Posted 18 June , 2014 Many thanks Simon and for the clarification G. The search goes on ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 22 June , 2014 Share Posted 22 June , 2014 Thanks for the translations Anyway, I got round to watching this programme on iPlayer: most odd. It seemed to be cobbled-together from items for The One Show. None of it was uninteresting, and none of it bad ... it just seemed aimless and rather a pot=boiler. And the bloke from Brighton, with the strange facial hair and even stranger rug was barking. Having done nothing more dangerous than marching through London behind the P&D, I can tell you they have an effect. I didn't need to pound a running machine for 5 minutes. I'm sort of glad I watched it (no programme with plentiful pipes and plentiful shots of London Jocks can be all bad), but it didn't live up to the success of the Machine Gun programme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaforths Posted 22 June , 2014 Share Posted 22 June , 2014 Oh well. I shall just have to keep my eyes open. By the way, if you can find me a German reference to 'Devils in Skirts', I shall buy you beer all evening. Jack 'Devils in Skirts' now that's one I've not heard before but it makes a change from the other myth of the Germans referring to the 'Ladies from Hell'.Edit: Thank you Derek for flagging it up on iPlayer. I've just watched and thoroughly enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roxy Posted 9 July , 2014 Share Posted 9 July , 2014 I watched it on iPlayer yesterday. I enjoyed. Roxy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajaxer Posted 11 July , 2014 Share Posted 11 July , 2014 BBC2 tonight at 9.30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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