Education
Oldroyd was educated at Oxford High School and Cambridge University.
Oldroyd was educated at Oxford High School and Cambridge University.
Beginning her career in commercial radio, Oldroyd joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Shropshire as a Sports Producer in 1986 before moving to London in 1988. She worked at Newsbeat and then at British Broadcasting Corporation Sport, reporting and presenting on both Radio 5 and 5 Live. She first hosted the Sunday afternoon sports show in 1993.
In 1995, she became the first female presenter of Sports Report (since it started in 1948) when she stood in for Ian Payne.
She is a regular on 5 Live"s Fighting Talk – known as the "First Lady of Fighting Talk" – and hosts several weekly 5 Live shows including Saturday Breakfast (with Chris Warburton), the evening 5 Live Sport programme and the Friday Sports Panel. She covers the Wimbledon tennis championships and was part of the Test Match Special team from 2000 to 2005.
She led the station"s coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi. She was named the Sports Journalists" Association Broadcast Presenter of the Year for 2014.