language productions. 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?". Other work Riddoch was involved in the buyout of Eigg by the local community. She assisted in putting together the buyout plan and later became a trustee of the Isle of Eigg Trust. The trust bought the island in 1997. In 2007, she published her account of a cycle journey up the Outer Hebrides, Riddoch on the Outer Hebrides. 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. In 2008, Riddoch served as a member of the Scottish Prisons Commission. In 2009, she acted as Chair in Task Force, set up by the Scottish Government, to transfer the island of Rùm into community ownership from Scottish Natural Heritage. 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. She later received an Honorary Doctorate for the work from Glasgow Caledonian University. In early 2010, 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. In 2013, Riddoch published Blossom: What Scotland Needs To Flourish, in which she relates stories of Scots who have struggled against the odds to improve their communities and makes comparisons with the Nordic nations to suggest ways forward for Scotland. 2017 saw the publication of McSmorgasbord: What post-Brexit Scotland can learn from the Nordics written in partnership with Eberhard Bort. This book uses the examples of the Nordic nations to tease out the various possible relationships between an independent Scotland and the European Economic Area. References External links 1960 births Living people Alumni of Cardiff University Alumni of the University of Oxford Scottish radio presenters Scottish journalists Scottish columnists Scottish podcasters British women podcasters Scottish nationalists Scottish women journalists Scottish women columnists