Gaelic Services News Today

A century ago on December 2 the BBC aired its first Gaelic programme shortly after the opening of the broadcaster's Belmont Street studios in Aberdeen. And there's a range of content to mark that pioneering broadcast from Station 2BD - as the inaugural BBC radio station in the Granite City was called – and to

Programmes from Inverness will air each day on both radio and TV.

Programmes from Inverness will air each day on both radio and TV.

Programmes from Inverness will air each day on both radio and TV.

Programmes from Inverness will air each day on both radio and TV.

Speak Gaelic learning initiative will launch in September It is a language which researchers say is in danger of dying out by the end of the decade unless urgent action is taken for Gaelic to avert a crisis. In a study by academics at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and Soillse, a multi-institutional research collaboration, 18 per cent of 16 to 18-year-olds on the Western Isles said both their parents are fluent in Gaelic, just 5.1% said they always or mainly speak the lan...