Sybil Ruscoe
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Sybil Ruscoe (born 8 August 1960 in Wem, Shropshire, England[citation needed]) 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.[citation needed] 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.[citation needed] From 1999 to 2007, Ruscoe wrote a cricket column for the Daily Telegraph.[citation needed]
She is a regular presenter on Farming Today on BBC Radio 4.[1]
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 F.C.[2]
In 2021, she was made an executive director of the Gloucestershire Cricket Board and a Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire,[3] and became farming and countryside advisor on The Archers.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Sybil Ruscoe Media – The Team: Sybil Ruscoe. Accessed 13 August 2014
- ^ Presenters are footy fans Accessed 13 August 2014
- ^ "Seven new Deputy Lieutenants announced for Gloucestershire - Gloucestershire County Council". www.gloucestershire.gov.uk. 27 April 2021. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Archers - Pants, pH and planning for the future of farming". BBC. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
External links
[edit]- Sybil Ruscoe at IMDb
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