With Fiona Ritchie
Saturdays, 8 to 9 p.m. / Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m.
A special message from Fiona Ritchie:
Fiona Ritchie
One of NPR’s most popular music programs is created in the foothills of the Scottish Highlands. When you turn your radio on, you’re there too.
On The Thistle & Shamrock, award-winning radio host Fiona Ritchie explores evolving music from Celtic roots in Europe and North America. You’ll hear well-established and newly emerging recording artists along with in-studio guests, all surveying familiar territory and leading you to more distant landscapes and genres.
About Fiona Ritchie
Broadcasting each week for two and a half decades, Ritchie’s radio program The Thistle & Shamrock has become one of NPR’s most widely heard and best-loved music programs.
Ritchie has presented numerous programs for BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 2, launching the Radio Scotland world music series Celtic Connections in 1993. She is currently at work on a book exploring musical links, historical and personal, between Scotland and Appalachia.
