Lesley Riddoch
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Dr Lesley Riddoch is a Scottish radio broadcaster and journalist.
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[edit] Early career
Lesley Riddoch was born in England then spent her childhood in Belfast before moving to Glasgow in 1973. In 1978 she attended the University of Oxford and graduated with an honours degree in Economics, Politics, and Philosophy. She was also elected president of the student union in 1981, although she was neither the first female president nor the first non-Conservative president, as is sometimes erroneously stated. After Graduating she studied for a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University.
[edit] 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 papers 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 for political writing.
[edit] Radio
From 1989 to 1994 she presented the Radio Scotland programme Speaking Out and the Radio Four programme You and Yours. In 1992 You and Yours won the Plain English special award and the Norman McEwen award for Civil Liberties. In 1993 she won the Cosmopolitan woman of the year award for Communication and in 1994 the best talk show award and the Silver Quill Law Society award.
Between 1999 and 2005 she had her own daily radio programme the Lesley Riddoch Programme on Radio Scotland for which she won two Sony speech broadcaster awards - although not the top prizes.
[edit] TV
Riddoch has presented numerous television programmes of which include the Midnight Hour on BBC2 the people's parliament and Powerhouse on Channel 4
She currently runs her own independent radio, podcast and TV production company known as Feisty Ltd and was also the chair of the Celtic Film and Television Festival 2004.
[edit] 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.
Riddoch 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.
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