BBC Alba Thursday

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

Every night, Owl keeps watch over the forest, but with the Moon growing thinner and the woods growing darker night by night, Owl begins to feel lonely

Hari the hippo looks for a map, encountering a scooter and a pathway as he searches the area

Seillean is very busy making honey. Animated tales for younger viewers

When AH-AH says he has to be somewhere else, his friends cannot understand why he is in so much of a hurry. They decide to find out where he is going and who he is meeting up with

Abney puts on a magic show for Teal and the Poc-Pocs, but they are not very impressed. Then all sorts of strange and mysterious things start to happen with Abney's new hat

Petit and his friends are having a lot of fun pretending to be robots. Then one of them presses a button - Petit gets the hiccups and Greg cannot stop sneezing

Martin MacIntyre reads An t-Àite as Fheàrr san t-Saoghal, written and illustrated by Peter Horácek and translated into Gaelic by Morag Stewart

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

Cameras return to Sgoil Taobh na Cloiche for a new term. The in-service day was not as successful as Mr Mackle had hoped and Ms Sharpe has made the newspapers

Betty wants a nice photo of Dave and Anna, but the camera George uses happens to belong to Gran, and funnily enough it has been cursed by an ancient mummy

Dave wishes for Fuzzypeg to smell fresher and for Gran to be nicer. Getting these ideals proves difficult - and in Dave’s case it sends nature topsy turvy

Gregor MacLeod makes lemon custard-filled Genovese biscuits from Sicily with soft buttery pastry, and reveals a quick recipe for light and fluffy giant pitta breads

Alison Lang chats to Joy Dunlop in the studio and Calum Maclean experiences literature galore as he learns about a writer who made his home in Barra

Local, national and international news and information

Life within Stornoway Harbour. The first episode introduces one of the largest construction projects the Western Isles have ever seen

The work of the Maternal Fetal Medicine Centre, where they carry out some of the most specialised and delicate surgeries in Australia

Roddy has health issues with the diagnosis of heart failure, so the lads appraise recipes without wheat or diary produce

Cathy MacDonald reveals George Orwell's time on Jura, and the writing of 1984, his dystopian novel about repression, surveillance, manipulation and rebellion

Julie Fowlis and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh present highlights from two decades of the music show, featuring Karan Casey, James Taylor and Eddi Reader

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