Fiona Ritchie

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 aired weekly for more than 40 years 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''.

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. Provided by Wikipedia