BBC Alba

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My DH works from home and quite often watches telly to give his eyes a rest.
He always switches the channel to Alba when he finishes.
Has anyone else seen it? Every now and then a programme comes on and the language is, I think, Gaelic.
The rest of the time it is a weather forecast.

DH sometimes watches it for the sport.

To be honest, I’ve never seen anything other than children’s programmes or speaking our language with Rhonda someone

Alba is the Gaelic name for Scotland.

BBC Alba is a Scottish-Gaelic channel and only has progamming in late afternoon-evenings. I'm guessing during the day it's just placeholder programming, hence the weather forecast.

OH sometimes watches sport on it but as the commentary is in Gaelic he can't understand a word they're saying

We watch S4C for the sport and local news.

I have watched a couple of their programmes on IPlayer. Most recently an old documentary about Runrig.

They sometimes have good Celtic type music bands on, so I'm told as the names mean nothing to me.

I’ve watched a couple of music programmes.
I have to say I love listening to the talking too. It’s unlike any language I have heard before

We watch it for the music programmes and I agree that the language is beautiful and hypnotic. We've got Celtic roots, though.

I watch it to try and learn Gaelic.
My favorites are an educational cartoon called "S'e Iasg a th ann" (I am a fish) and "Dhan Uisge" (Into the water) which is some nutter running about and diving into lochs