Scottish Gaelic radio

Scottish Gaelic is the principal spoken language of the services in this category. It describes presentation, interviews and discussion, not a rule that every piece of music has Gaelic words. A Gaelic-language radio programme may follow current affairs, speak with artists, explore cultural questions or play music from several traditions. The language gives listeners a meaningful way to choose among those different kinds of programme. Gaelic broadcasting has a strong relationship with Scotland and its communities, including the Highlands and Islands, but a service can reach listeners elsewhere too. A Scotland regional tag describes its setting, while the language tag describes the speech a listener will hear. Neither category alone tells the whole story of its programme or its intended audience. Format is a further distinction. A broad speech and music service, a specialist cultural show and another kind of programme can all use Gaelic. The category groups them by language without reducing them to a single genre or treating Gaelic as an occasional novelty within English-language radio. Its description is independent of the current list of stations.