BBC Alba Thursday

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

Tiny Clanger and her flower friends make music with the Music Trees. However, it soon becomes clear that soneone else is singing as well

Ben sends the animals in search of a steam train, and Seren the bat decides her ability to travel quickly will help her find it

AH-AH's lucky shorts no longer fit him and he's unhappy about this

When Abney and Teal have a snooze in Abney's new summerhouse, they don't wake up where they expect. Abney must use his building skills to find them a way home

Pompon promises his mum that he will wash himself before the evening's concert

Catriona MacPhee reads A Bhith nam Leòmhann written and illustrated by Emma Carlisle and translated into Gaelic by Jo Macdonald

An unusual creature is spotted walking across the ocean floor, causing havoc. It needs to be identified - and stopped in its tracks

The mystery of the lighthouse keepers who disappeared from the Flannan Isles, including a song from a couple of fishermen with their own unique take on events

Dave and his friends get lost on a school orienteering exercise. To make matters worse their map is snatched by a flock of giant tiger pigeons

Dave stumbles across a mermaid. After she takes up residence in the Spuds' bathtub, he and his family must somehow persuade their unwanted guest to go back to her watery home

Fiona Crowden visits a horse in Forfar with ongoing breathing problems, a Chihuahua needs surgery on a sensitive part of his body and it's lambing season for Ella Hamilton

Joy Dunlop guides viewers through the first steps of speaking Gaelic. Tòmas MacAilpein is Joy's studio guest and Calum Maclean explains the story of the heroic Vatersay Raiders

Local, national and international news and information

Mairi Rodgers finds out about the science and conservation work being done at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. In Gaelic with English subtitles

The impact of global warming at the Artic, Antarctic and the Himalayas, and how science, nature and tradition can help prepare for a fast-changing future

Poet-in-residence Torquil Farquhar de Smith tries to capture the essence of Fraochy Bay in verse

Spoof documentary. Angela clashes with angry locals shouting about short-term lets. There’s a sticky situation when an activist sneaks through the catflap with a tube of superglue

Weekly insight into the major political, social and cultural issues hitting the headlines across Europe

John Morrison revisits the story of Eugene Chantrelle, a French teacher hanged for murdering his wife in Edinburgh in 1878

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

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