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British radio and television presenter

Sybil Ruscoe (born 8 August 1960 in Wem, Shropshire, England) is a British radio and television presenter.

Ruscoe began her career on the Express & Star newspaper in Wolverhampton. She moved to Radio Wyvern, Beacon Radio, then BBC Radio Shropshire. She was teamed with Simon Mayo on Radio 1 Breakfast in 1988 and 89. She also started presenting television during this period, including Top of the Pops.

She was a presenter of Radio 1 Newsbeat and News 90, News 91, News 92 and News 93. In 1994, Ruscoe and John Inverdale were the first presenters hired by BBC Radio 5 Live. Ruscoe presented the afternoon show for five years. In 1999, she joined the BAFTA and RTS award-winning Channel 4 Cricket. She was the first woman to present cricket on TV, and was named a Cosmopolitan Inspirational Woman of the Year. From 1999 to 2007, Ruscoe wrote a cricket column for the Daily Telegraph.

She used to be a presenter on Farming Today on BBC Radio 4.

Ruscoe co-wrote the Official Book of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games with her husband, Tom Knight, the former athletics correspondent of the Daily Telegraph.

Ruscoe is a supporter of Stoke City Football Club.

In 2021, she was made an executive director of the Gloucestershire Cricket Board and a Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire, and became farming and countryside advisor on the long-running radio soap The Archers.

References

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  2. "Sybil Ruscoe is thrilled by Olympic opportunity". www.shropshirestar.com. 3 August 2012. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  3. "Sport | Cricket | Ruscoe makes the breakthrough". BBC News. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  4. "Introducing our new GPFA President" (PDF). The Playing Field. Gloucestershire Playing Fields Association. Winter 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2024.
  5. Presenters are footy fans Accessed 13 August 2014
  6. "Seven new Deputy Lieutenants announced for Gloucestershire - Gloucestershire County Council". www.gloucestershire.gov.uk. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  7. "BBC Radio 4 - The Archers - Pants, pH and planning for the future of farming". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

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