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Lesley Riddoch was born on 1 February, 1960, is a Scottish broadcaster and journalist. Discover Lesley Riddoch's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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1960

Lesley Anne Riddoch (born February 1960) is a Scottish radio broadcaster, activist and journalist who lives in Fife.

Born 1960 in Wolverhampton, England, Riddoch moved with her Scottish parents to Belfast in 1963, then to Glasgow in 1973, where she attended Drewsteignton, a fee-paying private school then located in the affluent suburb of Bearsden.

1978

In 1978 she attended the University of Oxford and graduated with an honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

1981

She was also elected president of the student union in 1981.

After graduating she studied for a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University.

1989

From 1989 to 1994 she presented the BBC Radio Scotland programme Speaking Out and was an occasional relief presenter for the Radio Four programme You and Yours.

1990

During the 1990s, she was a contributing editor of the Sunday Herald and an assistant editor of The Scotsman.

1992

She founded and directed a feminist magazine known as Harpies and Quines, which launched in 1992.

During its lifetime, it was sued by the publication Harpers & Queen.

1993

From 1993 to 1999 she was a contributing editor of the Sunday Herald and an 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.

In 1993 Riddoch won a Cosmopolitan woman award for Communication, and in 1994 her Radio Scotland production team won a best talk show award.

One of the Speaking Out programmes took the Silver Quill Law Society award that same year.

1994

The magazine ceased trading in 1994, having been declared bankrupt after cashflow problems.

1997

The trust bought the island in 1997.

1999

Between 1999 and 2005, she had her own daily radio programme on Radio Scotland.

Riddoch presented television programmes of which include The Midnight Hour on BBC2, and The People's Parliament and Powerhouse on Channel 4.

2004

Since 2004, she has run her own independent radio and podcast company, Feisty Ltd. In 2006, she was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.

She 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.

2005

She has also worked with African women journalists to help them create a monthly webpaper called Africawoman – three editions of their 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.

2006

Writing columns for The National, The Scotsman, and occasionally The Guardian, in 2006 she was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, an award given to those judged to be making political writing into an art form.

2007

In 2007, she published her account of a cycle journey up the Outer Hebrides, Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides.

This book had been based on a BBC Radio Scotland series On the Bike; in which over 13 weeks Riddoch cycled from Barra to the Butt of Lewis meeting the characters, enjoying the craic and observing the customs of the Hebridean islands.

2008

In 2008, she produced and presented an independent documentary about the history and development of the Dundee waterfront called The Great Tay Bridge Mystery – Who Dunnit?.

Riddoch was involved in the buyout 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.

In 2008, Riddoch served as a member of the Scottish Prisons Commission.

2009

In 2009, she acted as Chair in Task Force, set up by the Scottish Government, to transfer the island of Rùm into community ownership from Scottish Natural Heritage.

2010

In early 2010, Riddoch co-founded the think tank, Nordic Horizons with Scottish Government funding, which has brought Nordic experts and specialists to Scotland to share social policy insights and experiences.

2013

In 2013, Riddoch published Blossom: What Scotland Needs To Flourish, in which she relates stories of Scots who have struggled against the odds to improve their communities and makes comparisons with the Nordic nations to suggest ways forward for Scotland.

2017

2017 saw the publication of McSmorgasbord: What post-Brexit Scotland can learn from the Nordics written in partnership with Eberhard Bort.

This book uses the examples of the Nordic nations to tease out the various possible relationships between an independent Scotland and the European Economic Area.