BBC Alba

BBC Alba

BBC ALBA is a British Scottish Gaelic-language free-to-air television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG ALBA. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day. The name Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. The station is unique in that it is the first channel to be delivered under a BBC licence by a partnership and is also the first multi-genre channel to come entirely from Scotland with almost all of its programmes made in Scotland.

United Kingdom

TV guide - Thursday, 18/04/24

00:00
Alba Today
Sealladh ùr bho Alba. A new view from Scotland.
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06:00
Alba Today
Sealladh ùr bho Alba. A new view from Scotland.
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17:00
Sionnach agus Maigheach (Fox & Hare)
Hare is always the first to enjoy a new day, but today she doesn’t want to get out of bed.
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17:15
Pip is Posy
Pip and Posy are being artistic with pancakes today, but they’re not friendly for long.
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17:25
Rita is Crogall
Rita and Crocodile visit a castle today.
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17:30
Oscar & Ealasaid
Ernest is honoured when the mayor asks him to sing the "Song of the Bears".
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17:45
Nannag a’ Noo/Huggleboo
The wind blows so hard that it scares Huggleboo.
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17:50
Stòiridh
Alec MacDonald reads Eanraig agus an Yeti.
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18:00
An Saoghal Droil aig Pol Ploc/The Rubbish World of Dave Spud
Zombie Katie is shocked by the taste of one of Gran’s Fishermen’s Enemy sweets.
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18:10
Geamaichean Gòrach
Tha Coinneach glè chruthachail an-diugh. Coinneach is very creative today.
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18:15
An Teaghlach Rìoghail an Ath-dhoras/The Royal Next Door
Tha pàrtaidh gu bhith ann. Cò thèid ann? There’s going to be a party. Who will go?
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18:25
An Teaghlach Rìoghail an Ath-dhoras/The Royal Next Door
Tha Stella ag ullachadh gheamaichean teaghlaich. Stella is organising family games.
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18:40
Triuir aig Tri
Della, Lou and Marco are keen to impress the hotel inspector who’s arrived on the island.
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19:00
An Lot/The Croft
Tha Sweeny a’ faighinn droch naidheachd. Sweeny gets some bad news.
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19:30
SpeakGaelic
The studio guest is Dr Marsaili MacLeod from Sutherland.
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20:00
An Là
Local, national and international news and information from BBC ALBA
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20:30
Lios Mhairi/Mairi’s Hebridean Garden
Mairi’s busy getting plants in the ground.
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21:00
Florence Nightingale A’ Chiad Nurs
The life of Florence Nightingale, a source of inspiration for generations of nurses.
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21:50
OMC!
In this episode Claudia Winkleman fronts BBC ALBA’s ‘Na Traoidhdearan’.
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22:00
Dàna | Scotland’s Wild Side
Coinneach MacFhraing make his first trip to the Island of Arran.
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22:30
Sàr Sgeòil
Cathy MacDonald explores the fact behind the fiction of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
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23:30
Mach à Seo!
Ramsay follows in Scottish legend Rob Roy’s footsteps in Stirlingshire’s hills and glens
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TV guide - Friday, 19/04/24

00:00
Alba Today
Sealladh ùr bho Alba. A new view from Scotland.
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06:00
Alba Today
Sealladh ùr bho Alba. A new view from Scotland.
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17:00
Treubh an Tuathanais (Big Barn Farm)
Tha Coinneach 'son a bhith na cheannard. Coinneach wants to be the leader.
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17:15
Na Clangers
Tha rudeigin a’ tighinn an-diugh. Something is coming today.
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17:30
Sionnach agus Maigheach (Fox & Hare)
Hare is always the first to enjoy a new day, but today she doesn’t want to get out of bed.
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17:40
AH-AH/No-No
Tha rocaid ri ceannsachadh an-diugh. There’s a rocket needing to be controlled.
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17:45
Peicein/Petit
Petit wants to have a pet dog, but his parents give him a boring bird.
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17:55
Stòiridh
Patsi NicCoinnich a’ leughadh An Jazz Chù. Patsi Mackenzie reads An Jazz Chù.
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18:00
Aithne air Ainmhidhean/All About Animals
Meet Harry, a hyrax with front feet like an elephant's and back feet like a horse's.
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18:25
Belle and Sebastian
Chan eil Sebastian idir toilicht’ an-diugh. Sebastian isn’t at all happy today.
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18:40
A’ Chùil
Choirstaidh takes a look at an artist that inspires her, this time it's Hilma Af Klint.
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18:45
Donnie Murdo/Danger Mouse
Danger Mouse inherits the ancient but spritely MK3 car.
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19:00
An Là
Local, national and international news and information from BBC ALBA
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19:25
Dàn
Eilidh Cormack discusses the poem “Thig Trì Nithean Gun Iarraidh”
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19:30
Live Rugby
From the Greenyards in Melrose, Southern Knights host Edinburgh A
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21:25
Fraochy Bay
Times are tough for Fraochy Bay's sweet-toothed residents.
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21:30
Jock Stein
The story of Jock Stein, Scotland's greatest ever football manager.
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