Sybil Ruscoe

{{Short description|British radio and television presenter}}

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Sybil Ruscoe DL (born 8 August 1960 in Wem, Shropshire, England{{Cite web |title=Sybil Ruscoe |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5100114/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}) 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.{{Cite web |date=2012-08-03 |title=Sybil Ruscoe is thrilled by Olympic opportunity |url=https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/08/03/sybil-ruscoe-is-thrilled-by-olympic-opportunity/ |access-date=2024-11-18 |website=www.shropshirestar.com |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |website=BBC News |title=Sport {{!}} Cricket {{!}} Ruscoe makes the breakthrough |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sport/cricket/309450.stm |access-date=2024-11-18}} From 1999 to 2007, Ruscoe wrote a cricket column for the Daily Telegraph.{{Cite web |date=Winter 2022 |work=The Playing Field |url=http://glospfa.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/The-Playing-Field-Winter-2022.pdf |access-date=18 November 2024 |publisher=Gloucestershire Playing Fields Association |title=Introducing our new GPFA President}}

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.[http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showpost.php?p=49197646&postcount=2 Presenters are footy fans] Accessed 13 August 2014

In 2021, she was made an executive director of the Gloucestershire Cricket Board and a Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire,{{cite web |title=Seven new Deputy Lieutenants announced for Gloucestershire - Gloucestershire County Council |url=https://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/gloucestershire-county-council-news/news-april-2021/seven-new-deputy-lieutenants-announced-for-gloucestershire/ |website=www.gloucestershire.gov.uk |access-date=12 November 2022 |date=27 April 2021}} and became farming and countryside advisor on the long-running radio soap The Archers.{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - The Archers - Pants, pH and planning for the future of farming |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4b7lyVFRxHrN8V6RsgDqSgM/pants-ph-and-planning-for-the-future-of-farming |website=BBC |access-date=12 November 2022}}