Lesley Riddoch is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, author, cyclist, land reform campaigner & lover of all things Nordic.

Denmark The State of Happiness

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The Denmark film is being shown at more than a dozen screenings with Q&A around Scotland in early 2024

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New book

Thrive: The Freedom To Flourish

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The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
with Pat Joyce

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Scottish politics dissected from a left, pro-independence stance. Each week, award-winning broadcaster and journalist, Lesley Riddoch chews over the week’s news with former media lecturer and Dundee United fan, Pat Joyce. If you like intelligent, quirky chat about Scottish society and culture, and Scottish, UK and international politics analysed from a Scottish perspective; this podcast is for you.

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Thrive: The Freedom to Flourish

by Lesley Riddoch

‘Let’s cast aside pre-conceptions. Whichever way you voted in 2014 – if you were able – the world has changed, Europe has changed, the UK has changed (not in a good way) and now Scots need the freedom to change too.