Pressure is building in the runup to the World Pipe Band Championships. Plus: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen’s whistle-stop tour of madcap houses. Here’s what to watch this evening

9pm, Sky Arts
Rivalries! Underdogs! Icons! Welcome to the world of competitive piping, which according to this joyful (but deadly serious) three-part series is tenser and tighter than ever. Episode one follows the powerful and precise work of Scottish pipe bands as they prepare to take part in the showpiece competition, the World Pipe Band Championships in Glasgow. Everyone looks justifiably terrified. Hollie Richardson