BBC Alba HD Thursday

BBC Alba joins Radio nan Gàidheal, the BBC's Gaelic language radio service

Tusk plays a ping-pong game against himself, but keeps losing the balls, while Owl comes across an abandoned egg on his walk through the forest

Linda challenges Meaban and Moo with finding pairs. Their hut is full of junk so Meaban and Moo just need to have a good rummage

AH-AH's eyesight is odd, as he is seeing double. His friends hope to help him with this unusual problem

The baby snails are up to all sort of things - leaving behind some shiny trails

Abney finds a hole in his roof. Then he starts to notice holes everywhere. He decides to dig one of his own, but gets stuck in it and needs help from Teal, Neep and the Poc-Pocs

Huggleboo is making music by clinking spoons against glasses and pans. Mum wants her to be quiet however, as Elisabeth needs to sleep

Wilma Kennedy reads Oscar an Cat Aiseig by Molly Arbuthnott, illustrated by Agnes Treherne and translated into Gaelic by Jo Macdonald

The Spuds show off Betty and George’s new bed by taking it for a spin around the town, picking up a few unexpected passengers along the way

Olaidh Orains and Coinneachd Clogaid compete as always, but Olaidh has it in the bag

The school fair is going to take place and Stella and the children have to bake for it. The Queen wants to use a delicious royal recipe, but how will they get on?

The King and the Mayor’s competiveness puts the whole town in danger, but can this rivalry also save the town?

Vito is nervous about his first fight, though his coach and grandmother encourage him greatly

Vets Ellie Milnes and Alice Bacon castrate a horse at Highland Wildlife Park, while in Aberdeenshire, Scott Rigg operates on a retriever's eye

Meg Bateman chats to Joy Dunlop about philosophy. Plus, the intrepid Calum Maclean ventures to far-flung corners of Scotland seeking hidden treasures

Local, national and international news and information

In Harris, Gregor MacLeod meets Mairi MacKenzie, who inherited her great auntie’s recipe book, and they make her recipe for caramel shortbread

Series about muster dogs and their trainers in Australia, including Debbie and Snip, the mother and father of the new litter of puppies in Goondy Creek, Western Plains

Ramsay MacMahon visits Helsinki, the capital city of the country voted the happiest in the world - Finland. He takes a luxurious sauna and takes a dip in the Baltic Sea

Documentary revisiting the 19th-century murder case involving Madeleine Smith, asking whether the Glasgow socialite really did poison her lover with arsenic

Music concert programme from Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, featuring the Skye band Niteworks, collaborating with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

BBC Alba joins Radio nan Gàidheal, the BBC's Gaelic language radio service