Lesley Riddoch hosts a Sony award-winning show on BBC Radio Scotland – a daily two-hour extravaganza of news, debate and phone-in argument which acts as a daily link between listeners and Members of the Scottish Parliament.
Lesley is also founder and editor of Worldwoman a Scottish based charity that sets up e-papers written by women in developing countries via the internet. It was launched on International Women’s Day 2000.
And she is founderdirector of Africawoman – the first successful worldwide training programme and monthly internet paper written by 90 women journalists from Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ghana and, from May 2003, Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Cameroon.
She was Assistant Editor of the Scotsman, Contributing Editor of the Sunday Herald and has presented network programmes on BBC Radio 4, BBC TWO and Channel 4.
Lesley hosted five series of People’s Parliament and also the political programme Powerhouse, both on Channel 4.
She has also presented BBC TWO’s Midnight Hour and Radio 4’s You and Yours.
Lesley Riddoch was Assistant and acting Deputy Editor of the Scotsman from 1994 to 1996. It was during this time she was Editor for the day of the Scotswoman. This was an edition written and produced by the paper’s female staff which received worldwide publicity.
Prior to this she was founder and director of the feminist magazine Harpies and Quines. The magazine survived court action by Harpers and Queen but bowed to financial pressures after three years of publication.
Her production company – Sequinned Pariahs – is an anagram of the defunct title!
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