Lesley Riddoch
Chair: Lesley Riddoch - writer, commentator and broadcaster
Lesley runs her own independent radio, and podcast company, Feisty Ltd. She is a weekly columnist for the Scotsman, shortlisted in 2006 for the Orwell prize for political writing.
She was a founding member of the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust which led to the successful community buyout in 1997. Lesley was founder of the feminist magazine Harpies and Quines in the early 90s, assistant editor of The Scotsman editing a special edition known as The Scotswoman written by its female staff in 1995, and contributing editor of the Sunday Herald in the late 90s. But she's best known for broadcasting. After presenting Radio 4's You and Yours and BBC2's Midnight Hour in the mid 90's she came "home" after devolution to present her own daily radio Lesley Riddoch Show on Radio Scotland for which she won two Sony speech broadcaster awards. She was founder and editor of Africawoman, an online newspaper written by 100 African women journalists.
