Lesley Riddoch

Lesley Anne Riddoch (born February 1960) is a British radio broadcaster and journalist who lives in Perth. During the 1990s, she was a contributing editor of the Sunday Herald and an assistant editor of The Scotsman. Since 2004, she has run her own independent radio and podcast company, Feisty Ltd. In 2006, she was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize.

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. In 1978 she attended the University of Oxford and graduated with an honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. She was also elected president of the student union in 1981. After graduating she studied for a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University.

She founded and directed a feminist magazine known as Harpies and Quines which launched in 1992. during its lifetime was sued by the publication Harpers & Queen. The magazine ceased trading in 1994, having been declared bankrupt after cashflow problems.

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.

Writing columns for The Sunday Post, 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.

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