The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
Hosted by Lesley Riddoch and Fraser and Fraser Thompson · Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
4.9from 121 ratings
- 160
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 121
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About The Lesley Riddoch Podcast
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 co-host Fraser Thompson. 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.
- Publisher
- Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson
- Category
- news · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 10 Oct 2023
- Latest episode
- 5 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 160 episodes have a transcript.
5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Pacific-Sized Prep, Green Stramashes & Burnham’s Neoliberal Double-Lock
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Britian really all together now? Or is this no man's land?
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is this the end for Scotland's mega-councils?
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Pacific-Sized Prep, Green Stramashes & Burnham’s Neoliberal Double-Lock
Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So all the big whos, you know, from council housing to thinking and not, as you pointed out at the time, not re-nationalising Thames water, but just talking about more controls. I mean, all of it has basically, we're there. And it's almost like, yeah, you know, so we really need to be saying, OK, this is the new. I mean, like if we're sitting in a class, we're in the top stream in terms of a lot of sensible policy. So actually, you need to have targets that are further than that. And the second I say targets, I was listening to Good Morning Scotland this morning and they had... Shirley Ann Somerville on because the legally mandatory targets on child poverty look set to be missed, according to the Roundtree Foundation. […]
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- YouTube views
- 2,491,282
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 10 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 111 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 70 / 100
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- Quality
- 65
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 95
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Lesley Riddoch and Fraser and Fraser Thompson host the show. Published by Lesley Riddoch and Fraser Thompson.
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