Latest Scottish independence Podcast Episodes
To be wanted
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - March 04, 2019 13:25 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter I begin by giving far too detailed an explanation of why we're now podcasting on Mondays, Lesley gets stuck into what looks like a bidding war between the EU and EFTA for a post-independence Scotland. She also considers, what appears to be, growing indications of the launch of Indyref2 a...
People Power
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 26, 2019 17:22 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt was "Hold the front page" time this afternoon as Theresa May made her much trailed statement to the Commons after a fractious Cabinet meeting. We give our initial reactions to her last-minute Brexit manoeuvring. Lesley returned to her alma mater at the end of last week to attend a confere...
The Secret 7
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 19, 2019 13:37 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThere's only one place to begin this week and it's the, less than, surprise resignation of seven Labour MPs to form TIG-The Independent Group. Lesley and I try to get our heads round why now, what for, and what next for this disparate group. This speculation, inevitably for us, leads us down...
The road from the isles
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 12, 2019 13:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley's just back from a wee tour of the Western Isles and looks back on the perils, and pleasures, of travel around the Outer Hebrides. The pleasure mainly being her discovery of the joys of the electric bike. She also reflects on the crofting and housing crisis facing the islanders and th...
The Aftermath
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 05, 2019 15:44 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBack in the days of Riddoch Questions we used to sit around post show and record our thoughts about the topics and podcast them as Aftermath. Well...after today's podcast we suddenly found ourselves chatting about the meaning of identities ,specifically our own, and we decided to go back to th...
True Grit
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 05, 2019 13:33 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's a podcast of two halves today.The news that Celtic Connections has been awarded £100,000 from the Scottish Government's Expo Fund to commission eight new pieces of work for the Grit Orchestra sparks off part one. Part the second moves from music to history examining the wartime nationali...
Danes 1 Fox News 0
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 03, 2019 16:15 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley interviews Danish MP Dan Joergensen
A tale of two parliaments
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - February 01, 2019 18:08 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Irish backstop is still the hot topic of Brexit debate and Lesley examines the "Let's blame Ireland" narrative which the likes of John Humphrys and Andrew Marr are punting on the BBC. I spent most of Tuesday glued to BBC Parliament trying to follow the series of amendments to the Brexit vo...
The B word
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - January 22, 2019 15:39 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThere's nothing happening with Brexit but there's nothing else we can talk about. Well, Lesley and I hope to prove that wrong and we begin by......talking about Brexit. We reflect on the impasse at Westminster and how the log jam might be broken by the series of amendments placed for next we...
A majority of contradictions
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - January 16, 2019 12:18 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's the morning after the night before and as the light at the end of the Brexit tunnel looks increasingly like the No Deal express thundering down the track we try and make sense of it all. Lesley wonders just where Theresa May can now go to get some sort of parliamentary consensus and is th...
Common cause and conventions
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - January 12, 2019 13:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe make our first appearance of 2019 and it's our longest edition ever. I leave it you to decide if this is a good thing.... Lesley spent the last week in London and we begin by looking at her appearance on the BBC's Politics Live. I'm giving no secrets away by revealing in advance that she di...
Brexit. Stage left
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - December 17, 2018 13:48 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsI had, as is my wont, my wee notebook with a plethora of end of year topics for us to discuss. However, Lesley has just come back from down south where she met up with supporters of Lexit. Folk on the left who are in favour of Brexit, and there are more of them than we up here would think. All...
Motherland
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - December 10, 2018 14:06 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt will come as no surprise to you that we begin with, and spend most of the podcast on, Brexit. The ECJ's ruling on the "Scottish Case" has suddenly sent the media into a frenzy on something that they've been dismissing as fringe nonsense for the past year. Lesley considers the shining light ...
What's my line?
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - December 03, 2018 13:06 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt's been a week of touring. Lesley visiting the four corners of Scotland with her film on Norway, and Theresa May punting her Brexit deal to her "precious union". We try and get our heads around just what the PM was trying to achieve with her carefully managed charm offensive. The National,...
Bravery not Bravado
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - November 26, 2018 15:18 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're back! Yup after a two-week break, during which time nothing politically significant at all has happened, the podcast has returned. Please read that last sentence with a note of irony, of course. As you might be aware our absence was down to my better half's close encounters with the NH...
The Infamous Grouse
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - November 08, 2018 16:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley and I were both enthralled by the US midterm elections. I followed them on CNN and she on C4. Still her go to news channel despite the Nicola Sturgeon Brexit debate debacle. The blue surge in the States ushered in a swathe of new, progressive Democrats to the House of Representatives,bu...
Ghosties,ghoulies and whigmaleeries
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - November 01, 2018 14:16 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLast night was Halloween but there's no trick or treating in this all genuine, all traditional, Scottish podcast. Lesley turns her gimlet gaze on Scotland's less than glorious witch hunting past and explodes some myths. I chip in with a wee bit on the roots of Samhain and memories of the 195...
Equality and elites
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 25, 2018 11:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsYou'll be able to get a wheen o' ironing done this week chums as we offer up an extended, hour long, podcast. Westminster takes up the first section with thoughts on Sir Paul Beresford's " I can't understand your accent" nonsense; Ian Blackford's sterling performances at PMQs, and the unsinkab...
The art of thrawn
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 17, 2018 11:36 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWriter Gabriella Bennett has just published her new book, “The Art of Coorie", inviting her readers to "embrace all things Scottish". Lesley and I cast our sceptical, though not cynical eyes, on her interpretation of coorie and Caledonian cool. We stick with the land and the new twists in th...
Senator Neale Richmond interview
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 11, 2018 15:51 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsSenator Neale Richmond was elected to Seanad Éireann in April 2016 to the Labour Panel. He is the Fine Gael Spokesperson on European Affairs in the Seanad. Senator Richmond gave this short interview to Lesley after his recent appearance at the 2018 SNP conference.
Respect yourself
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 11, 2018 12:05 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIt may come as a shock to you but we begin each podcast with a list of topics, all in my wee blue notebook. This week we break with tradition and open with a continuation of our off-mic conversation on the nature of being who we really are. How does the putting on and shedding the masks we wear ...
It's a legal matter
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - October 04, 2018 18:42 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe can't ignore the Tory party conference, try as hard as we might, and we kick off this week's podcast with our reflections on Theresa May's moves. Ruth Davidson has been on a PR offensive for her new book while ignoring requests for serious political interviews. Gordon Brewer of the BBC and ...
Decisions decisions
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - September 27, 2018 17:25 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe return, after some time, to the murky world of Trump and US politics as Christine Blasey Ford appears in front of the Senate Judiciary about the alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Lesley asks if Kavanaugh can survive Blasey Ford's compelling testimony and that o...
The V&Tay
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - September 20, 2018 15:40 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're back after our three week break and unashamedly spend the first part of the podcast singing the praises, with a few caveats, of the brand-new V&A Dundee. Many thanks to Jenny, V&A Dundee press officer for her help in organising our visit. However, we get back to grim reality with the rec...
Haud yir wheesht
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 31, 2018 12:56 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsIf a week's a long time in politics the past two have seemed like an eternity and it should be no surprise to anyone that we begin and end this podcast focusing on the ongoing controversy surrounding Alex Salmond. The majority of our time is spent trying to unpick the story and reach our own c...
Facts are chiels that winna ding
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 16, 2018 15:11 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsAfter a shock opening, where Lesley blows my cover as the essence of cool by revealing my in-depth knowledge of Friends, we get down to this week's business. As we get ready for this Saturday's AUOB march in Dundee, Lesley’s been out and about at showings of the first two movies in her Nation ...
Testing times
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - August 09, 2018 12:27 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe're back after our two week break where Lesley had a braw time on Barra and I struggled with my less than stellar DIY skills. It's results time for our senior school pupils but Lesley examines whether it makes any sense at all to conduct national tests on five year olds and asks what, if any...
Up the wrang dreel
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 26, 2018 14:01 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsLesley's latest Scotsman article on berries rotting in the fields sparked some controversy among its readership. But just what are the causes of this farming disaster? Talking of controversy, Tommy Sheppard became headline news with his reply to Labour MP Ian Murray that, in retrospect, he wo...
Bees make honey
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 20, 2018 15:34 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWe begin with the stushy that Lesley's latest article in the Scotsman commenting on Nicola Sturgeon's stance on Donald Trump's visit caused. Never read the comments section is our sage advice. Hard on the heels of the Donald's departure for his infamous Helsinki meeting with Putin our very ow...
A state of chassis
The Lesley Riddoch Podcast - July 15, 2018 13:18 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsBenjamin Franklin famously said that there are only two things certain in life: death and taxes. Politically we can add Trump and Brexit,especially after this week. Lesley, hotfoot from her appearance on Sky News, takes on both these inescapables with her take on Trump's visit to Scotland. Wha...
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