Fiona Ritchie
Scottish radio broadcaster (born 1960) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fiona Karen Ritchie MBE (born 1960) is a Scottish radio broadcaster best known as the producer and host of The Thistle & Shamrock, an hour-long Celtic music program that airs weekly throughout the United States on National Public Radio (NPR). She also curates ThistleRadio, a 24/7 web-based music channel devoted to new and classic music from Celtic roots, and is co-author of The New York Times Best Seller Wayfaring Strangers.
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Fiona Ritchie | |
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Born | 1960 (age 63ā64) |
Career | |
Show | The Thistle & Shamrock |
Station | NPR |
Country | Scotland |
Website | thistleradio |
The radio program has won numerous awards since its inception in 1981, offering a fusion of traditional and contemporary Celtic sounds, interwoven with interviews, in-studio performances and Ritchie's own trademark commentary in her "soft Scots" dialect.[1]