The Lesley Riddoch Podcast Live

The Lesley Riddoch Podcast Live
Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with former media lecturer and Dundee United fan, Pat Joyce. They dissect Scottish, UK and international politics from a left, pro-independence stance. All that plus intelligent, quirky chat about Scottish society and culture.

The Lesley Riddoch podcast started way back in 2008 making it one of the earliest podcasts about the Scottish political and cultural scene. For the past eight years Lesley has been joined by old pal and media lecturer Pat Joyce. It has just reached the 750 episode landmark with well over a million downloads.

This special episode of the podcast will feature a 30 minute live show with Lesley and Pat. After the recording there will be a Q & A session for audience members only.

Lesley Riddoch has been an award-winning broadcaster and journalist for more than 30 years – 25 working as a presenter on Channel Four and BBC2, Radio 4 and Radio Scotland – focusing on politics, domestic policy and land reform. She was Assistant Editor of the Scotsman in 1995 and editor for the day of the Scotswoman, when the paper changed title and was written and edited by its female staff on International Women’s Day. Lesley was also part of the launch team behind the Sunday Herald and now writes weekly columns for the Herald and National newspapers.

She was a member of the Isle of Eigg Trust that steered the islanders’ 1997 community buyout, set up Africa woman, a charity that trained African women journalists online, gained a PhD in 2020 comparing the hut and cabin traditions of Scotland and Norway, won the Saltire Society’s Fletcher of Saltoun Award 2020 for contribution to public life and was also named Independence Campaigner of the Year. She’s written several books, presented four films on Scotland’s Nordic/Baltic neighbours, co-presents her own weekly political podcast and is Director of the Nordic Horizons policy group.

Learn more:  lesleyriddoch.com