The Thistle & Shamrock (Thistle) is a weekly U.S. syndicated radio program, named after the national emblems of Scotland and Ireland, specializing in Celtic music. It is heard on 380 National Public Radio (NPR) stations, and is available internationally on WorldSpace via NPR Worldwide; according to NPR. Thistle is the most listened-to Celtic music program in the world. It has been produced and hosted by Scottish-born Fiona Ritchie since its incep...
more
The Thistle & Shamrock (Thistle) is a weekly U.S. syndicated radio program, named after the national emblems of Scotland and Ireland, specializing in Celtic music. It is heard on 380 National Public Radio (NPR) stations, and is available internationally on WorldSpace via NPR Worldwide; according to NPR. Thistle is the most listened-to Celtic music program in the world. It has been produced and hosted by Scottish-born Fiona Ritchie since its inception in 1981.
Thistle began at WFAE, a newly established NPR affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina. At the time it went on the air in 1981, WFAE was licensed to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) and Ritchie was working as a volunteer, having returned there after spending a semester in 1980 there as a teaching assistant. Being a new enterprise in need of programming, WFAE invited Ritchie to create a program of Celtic music. It originally aired only locally, but was launched nationally on June 4, 1983.
Thistle features...
less
