BBC Alba TV Guide

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

Astronaut Bekah talks about the valuable work of women in space. She also takes a look at temperature in the cosmos

Anna is practising for the school cycling test and is rather good at it. Dave however isn’t quite as skilled, but with a new bike from his parents he really hopes to pass

Mairi Rodgers visits the Alnwick Garden in Northumbria, where she explores the modern and fun garden, the brainchild of the Duchess of Northumberland. As well as walking around the world's largest Taihaku cherry orchard in full bloom, Mairi finds out about the plants lurking in the poison garden and enjoys the water features in the Serpent Garden

Joy Dunlop guides viewers through the first steps of speaking Gaelic. Singer and Gaelic teacher Margaret Macleod Nicholson is the studio guest and Calum Maclean visits Scotland’s newest city and once ancient capital, Dunfermline

Gregor MacLeod travels the Scottish islands gathering delicious recipes and meeting brilliant bakers. He gets a taste of what they are stirring up in their kitchens, as well as getting creative in his own. In Skye, Calina MacDonald shares her collection of cookbooks. With help from Gregor, Calina makes her favourite recipe - a ginger and marmalade slice, using her own homemade marmalade. Starting his own collection, Gregor takes down a fantastic recipe for whisky and honey cake to try at home. He then travels to Point to meet Alasdair MacLeod, who shows him his recipe for pumpernickel, a dark rich bread full of flavour. Back at home, Gregor shares his recipe for Semlor - Swedish cardamon-spiced buns, - and he completely reinvents Scottish classic black pudding

The varied ways animals use super-senses to navigate the world, from high-resolution vision to fish that taste with their skin. The series reveals how tigers turn orange into camouflage, dolphins navigate the deep using echo-location, raccoons feel their way with hyper-sensitive paws and even trees send out chemical alarms. In Gaelic

Leaving salt and sugar out of their recipes may prove a challenge to the lads. Roddy's heart condition dictates that these must be cut out, or at least severely restricted in his diet. Lobster in jerk sauce, grilled pineapple with rum caramel sauce, crispy fishcake and berry almond bakewell tart recipes are all tweaked to provide Roddy with tasty and healthy meals

A cinema documentary entirely in Scottish Gaelic, Iorram (Boat Song) is a lyrical portrait of life in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, past and present. Director Alastair Cole takes the audience on an immersive journey into the heart and soul of a 1000-year-old community, blending archive sound recordings of voices from the past with visuals of island life today and an original score by acclaimed folk musician Aidan O'Rourke. At the core of the film is an extraordinary trove of sound archive, recorded by pioneering Scottish ethnographers in the mid-20th century, who visited the Western Isles to capture the hardship and romance of life lived in precarious balance with the sea. These newly restored recordings preserve an oral history of lore and legends, tall tales and tragedies, passed down through generations of Gaelic speakers. This soundtrack of voices, stories and songs from the past is accompanied by moving imagery of the daily working rhythm of the islands, on land and on water, shot over the past three years. The tough realities of fishing and gutting in all weathers and seasons co-exist alongside superstitions and visions of mermaids, faerie folk and mysterious vanishing islands. The first film score by Aidan O'Rourke (of multi-award-winning folk group Lau) weaves together sound and vision in an emotional and cinematic narrative of toil, laughter and loss. The sea has always sustained this community, while also holding the power to ravage the lives of the families who rely upon it. The film offers whispers and shadows of people and tragic events long since gone, yet whose memory continues to shape life on the islands today