TV Guide BBC Alba Friday

Gregor MacLeod travels the islands gathering delicious recipes and meeting brilliant bakers and cooks. He gets a taste of what they are stirring up in their kitchens as well as getting creative in his own. In Kyle, Gregor meets Barbara Smith, whose most cherished possession is her grandmother’s recipe book. Gregor and her make gingerbread from that very guide. Inspired by the book, Gregor takes note of a recipe for steamed syrup sponges and recreates them at home, adding a modern twist with a decadent coconut custard. Gregor also shares his most recent culinary creations, including a zesty torta della nonna with crispy pastry and a topping of pinenuts, and savoury cheese muffins flecked with veggie haggis, including a surprise in the centre

Musician Iain Spanish MacKay explores the 50 year history of Scotland's music festivals and visits some of 2023's events meeting the performers, organisers and the fans that brave all kinds of weather that make up the Festival Experience

Europe's rarest, and most fascinating animals, focusing on the capercaillie, whose story begins in the far north as biologists capture wild animals in central Sweden to take them to Germany's Niederlausitz Natural Park