Lesley Anne Riddoch (born February 1960) is a Scottish radio broadcaster, activist and journalist who lives in Fife.
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.
[2] She was editor of a special one-off edition of The Scotsman on 8 March 1995 rebranding as The Scotswoman produced by the paper's female staff.
[7] Riddoch presented television programmes of which include The Midnight Hour on BBC2, and The People's Parliament and Powerhouse on Channel 4.
In 2008, she produced and presented an independent documentary about the history and development of the Dundee waterfront called The Great Tay Bridge Mystery – Who Dunnit?.
This book had been based on a BBC Radio Scotland series On the Bike; in which over 13 weeks Riddoch cycled from Barra to the Butt of Lewis meeting the characters, enjoying the craic and observing the customs of the Hebridean islands.
She has also 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.