BBC RADIO NAN GAIDHEAL

Utterly awful.  Should be renamed RADIO POP MUSIC and come with a Serious Health Warning. It is absurd that any public money should be wasted on this mind-numbing drivel from BBC Radio nan Gaidheal.

Like countless others, we wish to continue our Gaelic learning and education.  The only way to learn to an acceptable level is by keeping listening to Gaelic conversation and broadcasting.  

And most certainly not by listening to a Gaelic radio station spewing out Pop Music.  The two entities of Pop Music and Gaelic Culture are as far apart intellectually as it is possible to be.  They can never be reconciled.

Like most other listeners of Radio nan Gaidheal, we loathe Pop Music.  So why does BBC Scotland insist on shoving this rubbish into our ears day and night?  And why was the Gaelic Radio Channel established in the first place?  Was it,  perchance,  so that the BBC could  broadcast  Pop Music to the West Highlands?

It's not just the Pop Music thing that gets us worked up.  The standards in Gaelic Broadcasting have fallen badly in recent years even with supposedly professional journalists so that all too often what we get is a mixture of Slang English rather than pure,  Broadcast Quality,  Gaelic.  The television channel BBC Alba is the same,  or even worse.  Embarrassing.  This should not be allowed on air.

We used to have Radio nan Gaidheal on every moment that we could but,  nowadays,  it is with great trepidation that we press that ON button.  We simply do not know who,  or what,  is at the other end.