Lesley Riddoch

Lesley Riddoch

Lesley Riddoch (born 1963 in England) is a British radio broadcaster and journalist.

Early career

Lesley Riddoch was born in England in 1963,spent her childhood in Belfast then moved to Glasgow in 1973 where she attended a local fee-paying public school. In 1978 she attended the University of Oxford and graduated with an honours degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She was also elected president of the student union in 1981, although she was neither the university's first female president nor its first non-Conservative president [Oxford University Gazette, January 1971, page 14] as she has sometimes claimed. [ [http://www.coldtype.net/Assets/pdfs/CT6.1%20.pdf "Cold Type"] , 2002, Issue 6, page 7] [ [http://web.archive.org/web/20050307124500/lesleyriddoch.com/lr/CV.htm Leslie Riddoch personal web page] , at 28 January 2005] After Graduating she studied for a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University.

Journalism

She founded and directed a feminist magazine known as "Harpies and Quines" which during its lifetime was sued by the publication "Harpers & Queen". The magazine was later declared bankrupt for unrelated reasons.

During the years 1993 to 1999 she was the contributing editor of the "Sunday Herald" and assistant editor of "The Scotsman". She was editor of a special one-off edition of the Scotsman known as "The Scotswoman" produced by the paper's female staff.

She occasionally writes columns in "The Guardian", "The Scotsman", "The Herald" and the "Sunday Herald". In 2006 she was shortlisted for the Orwell prize, an award given to those making political writing accessible.

Radio

From 1989 to 1994 she presented the Radio Scotland programme "Speaking Out" and was one of the presenters of Radio Four programme "You and Yours". In 1992 the"You and Yours" production team won the Plain English special award and the Norman McEwen award for Civil Liberties. In 1993 Riddoch won a "Cosmopolitan" woman award for Communication and in 1994 for the best talk show award. Her programme Speaking Out took the Silver Quill Law Society award that same year.

Between 1999 and 2005 she had her own daily radio programme the "Lesley Riddoch Programme" on Radio Scotland.

Television

Riddoch presented television programmes of which include the "Midnight Hour" on BBC2 the people's parliament and "Powerhouse" on Channel 4 until ten years ago.

She currently runs her own independent radio, podcast and TV production company known as Feisty Ltd. In 2004 she chaired the Celtic Film and Television Festival, a small festival rewarding non-English language productions

Other work

Riddoch was involved in the buyout of the Isle of Eigg by the local community. She assisted in putting together the buyout plan and later became a trustee of the Isle of Eigg trust. The trust bought the island in 1997.

In 2008, Riddoch served as a member of the Scottish Government's Prison Commission.

Riddoch's first book was Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides and she has also co-authored a joke book with Ian Black on men and women.

She has also worked with African women journalists to help them create a monthly webpaper called "Africawoman" -- three editions of the own paper were distributed on trains and buses in Scotland prior to the Gleneagles summit 2005. She later received an Honorary Doctorate for the work from Glasgow Caledonian University.

External links

* [http://lesleyriddoch.com Official website]
* [http://lesleyriddoch.co.uk Official Blog]
* Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides [http://www.luath.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_Riddoch_on_the_Outer_Hebrides.html]

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