Lesley Anne Riddoch was born on February 1960 and is a Scottish radio broadcaster, activist and journalist who lives in Fife.
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Lesley Riddoch was elected president of the student union in 1981.
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Lesley Riddoch founded and directed a feminist magazine known as Harpies and Quines which launched in 1992.
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Lesley Riddoch was editor of a special one-off edition of The Scotsman known as The Scotswoman produced by the paper's female staff.
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In 1993 Lesley Riddoch won a Cosmopolitan woman award for Communication and in 1994 her Radio Scotland production team won a best talk show award.
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Lesley Riddoch presented television programmes of which include The Midnight Hour on BBC2, and The People's Parliament and Powerhouse on Channel 4.
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Lesley Riddoch was involved in the buyout of Eigg by the local community.
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Lesley Riddoch assisted in putting together the buyout plan and later became a trustee of the Isle of Eigg Trust.
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In 2008, Lesley Riddoch served as a member of the Scottish Prisons Commission.
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Lesley Riddoch has 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.
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Lesley Riddoch later received an Honorary Doctorate for the work from Glasgow Caledonian University.
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In early 2010, Lesley 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.
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