BBC Alba HD Wednesday

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

Ernest is honoured when the mayor asks him to sing the Song of the Bears - but when his voice starts acting up, who can replace him if they're not a large bear with a rough voice?

Linda visits Meaban and Moo to set them fun challenges. After a white chicken lands in the hut, she tasks them with finding three other things that are white

Boban enjoys the rhythm of the music on the radio so much that he begins to dance, but Fuigheag isn’t sure what these movements are all about

Fuigheag anticipates a birthday treat, but things don’t work out as they should

Gasta learns that it is not necessary to be good at something to feel good doing it. Animated tales about the prickly, smelly, flea-bitten Happy Hoglet

Muireall thinks that she's a good singer, but the Farmyard Bunch don't agree

Mischa MacPherson reads Augustus agus A Ghàire, written and illustrated by Catherine Rayner and translated into Gaelic by Jo Macdonald

Kika started playing the saxophone when she was three years old. She plays classical music mainly and has been offered the opportunity to play with The Big Band

Science and comedy collide under the watchful eyes of Professor Olive and Dr Moiteal. This episode has features on taste, wine glass smashing and camouflage

The Ugly Pageant is staged, where participants decide who the ugliest Bògais is

Mr Mackle is under pressure and he can't seem to get any respite. Ms Dallas is delighted that Colonel Clisham is visiting the school to teach a camouflage class

Islay-born artist Heather Dewar meets teacher Morvern McPhee on the island, and captures her in a colour portrait

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

The seeds in the window have sprouted, so Peter starts building the greenhouse, which is not without its challenges - fiddly parts, missing instructions and smashed glass

Angela MacLean's 2015 report on the efforts to close Bulgaria's remaining children's homes

The history of women's golf in Scotland, from the early pioneers to formidable role models who challenged the patriarchal constraints of male-dominated golfing arenas

Three years have passed and a lot has changed in Camus in that time, with Isla opening a new bistro with her good friend Pòl – Anndra’s boyfriend

Cathy MacDonald explores the themes of George Mackay Brown's novel Greenvoe, which imagined an Orkney island community threatened by a mysterious defence project

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