Fiona Ritchie 💙

Fiona MBE. Talks on the wireless, writes, loves living in Scotland.
NYTimes Best Seller: WAYFARING STRANGERS

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

THANK YOU listeners and musicians for all the kind messages about my stepping back from weekly broadcasts of The Thistle & Shamrock. I've so enjoyed bringing great music to you for 41 years! You can browse my archive of recent and older shows. #FinalFling https://t.co/nk98ElO2Oi

[Climate Cafe® @TheClimateCafes]

Fantastic to see #ClimateCafes featured on
@BBC100women from Nairobi during #COP28 with incredible #women on #BBC100Women panel.

#GlobalClimateCafe with @pepper_jess @GBulus
@PastorRichenda & @ShookaBidarian

Watch at https://t.co/BDGrJSjSAl #ClimateCafe https://t.co/r7apqGY0KT

[Climate Reality EU @ClimateCEE]

Jess Pepper, an inspiring @climatereality Leader from Scotland, and a founder of @TheClimateCafes, was acknowledged as one of the Climate Pioneers on the @bbc100women 2023 list!

Congratulations, dear Jess!🌟

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Loving browsing the 2023 #100women list from the @bbcworldservice. So much inspiration here including from my friend @pepper_jess who founded @TheClimateCafes to share with the world. (More: https://t.co/BBJmiNVyyd ) Congratulations to each and every one! https://t.co/KdTQ74SaYN

[Birnam Book Festival @BirnamBookFest]

Authors, volunteers, friends, and all who'd planned to attend this wkend's Birnam Book Festival: thanks for all the messages of support following our weather cancellation. With the very severe 'red warning' affecting our region this was beyond our control. Stay safe! #StormBabet

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Rain and fog is often a suitable backdrop for the music on The Thistle & Shamrock. Glad to be along for the ride. ;-)

[John Lillig @jclillig2]

Great drives from @gettysburg to @CityofYorkPA & back Sat & Sun 10/14-15, listening to @fiona_ritchie through rain & fog on @WYPR881FM & then blues & Sleepy Hollow on @wxpnfm; went through central squares in New Oxford & Abbottstown among many other sights

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

@leadbelly61 @BBCRadio4 Ha! Of course Add To Playlist is on @BBCRadio4 and much praise to them for this wonderful show. Thanks for the correction. (I’m so used to listening to @cerysmatthews on @BBC6Music) I’ll be devouring this series. ❤️ @BBCRadio4 ❤️ Gala still in my head… of course.

[Birnam Book Festival @BirnamBookFest]

Birnam Book Festival’s favourite illustrator Kate Leiper is joined by poet and storyteller @morag_caimbeul to guide us into The Wisdom of The Cailleach, Celtic goddess of the winter months. @BirnamArts 21st Oct 9:45-10:30. Tickets: Pay What You Can (Family event for all ages.)

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Lord I needed to lose myself in #AddtoPlaylist this evening. Thanks to @cerysmatthews
@IsataKm and all the team at @BBC6Music Freed from desire, mind and senses purified… And off we go to Gershwin. Na-na-na-na-na, na-na, na-na-na, na-na-na… And breathe. In a happy place now.

[Birnam Book Festival @BirnamBookFest]

Agnes Sampsoune, Issobell Atkine, Geillis Duncan… real names, real people. Almost 4,000 accused of witchcraft in Scotland. Birnam Book Fest explores lore, legend and more with @healandharrow @witchesofscotl1 Margaret Bennett @gnotesscotland
21-223 Oct https://t.co/IWSQPED0lQ

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Heading to the @scottishparliam tomorrow for the "Welcoming the Impact of @Climate_cafe" debate led by MSP @JohnSwinney Great to see this incredibly positive movement growing, with sister cafés emerging all around the world. One near you? https://t.co/EXrCHjpypC @TheClimateCafes

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Glad you were exploring it all and revelling in the confluence!

[Will Swaim @WillSwaim]

Such a great memory, like traveling down two dangerous rivers – listening to punk AND to Fiona Ritchie's "Thistle & Shamrock" on @NPR — and then finding their surprising confluence here, in The Pogues. (Respect to their offspring, Orange County's The Fenians.) @thefenians @fiona_ritchie

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Delighted you heard the airplay. Thanks for the great music! 🎶

[Mary Beth Carty @stompinmary]

Thankyou @fiona_ritchie for spinning songs from Crossing the Causeway on Thistle and Shamrock the last two weeks! Honoured to be on this epic @NPR show! 🤯 💚🎶

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Lots of great music to enjoy here folks! https://t.co/zYMlBaoqj4

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Been taking a break from Twitter and all that for a while cos, well y'know... but thought you'd like to join me for an hour of New Sounds for Summer on radio this wk (part 1 of 2) inc a lovely nod to Perthshire from @edsheeran Join me on your @npr station https://t.co/WVn75fukaW

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

@DavidRBarton1 And more New Releases on radio this wk from John Doyle, Natalie MacMaster (with @RhiannonGiddens) @NatalieHaas83 @LowLilyBand @rachelhair and lots of other fine artists whose new albums have been sent along to me for your listening pleasure. A cheeky wee debut for @edsheeran too.

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

Just picking this up and lovin it!

[Louisianish 🦐🦪🦀 @Louisianish]

Jammin’ out to @NPR’s The Thistle & Shamrock with @fiona_ritchie on @WFSUmedia this evening 🤘

[Louisianish 🦐🦪🦀 @Louisianish]

Jammin’ out to @NPR’s The Thistle & Shamrock with @fiona_ritchie on @WFSUmedia this evening 🤘

[Fiona Ritchie 💙 @fiona_ritchie]

@nancyfranklin @tylercoates Yup. No 'Z' in Syne!