After graduating, Cruddas started her career as a broadcast journalist and reporter with the BBC, working for BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, BBC Hereford & Worcester and BBC Radio 1Xtra. She also presented news bulletins on TalkSport. In July 2008 Cruddas began working on screen as a weather presenter for the BBC's Look North programme. She would also present and report on local radio including BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Lincolnshire, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Sheffield and BBC Radio York Whilst working at Look North she also spent time developing national science shows for BBC 4 and BBC 2 and working as a science reporter for Look North and BBC Five Live. In July 2011 she worked at NASA as a reporter covering the final space shuttle launch and landing for BBC radio. In November 2011, she left Look North to work as a Science Correspondent with the BBC based in Salford. Cruddas also reported for the BBC News Channel and appeared on screen as an expert on Coast and Newsround. As well as presenting science shows for BBC Learning. In July 2012 Cruddas left the BBC. Since July 2012 she has worked as a national space journalist and Broadcaster. She is the popular voice of space on British TV, most notably on Sky News, Channel 5 News and ITV. She has also continued to work with the BBC as a reporter for the BBC News and Horizons Business on BBC World and has presented shows about space exploration on BBC Radio 4, BBC GNS and BBC World Service. Cruddas has also appeared on screen talking about space on various US documentaries on Discovery Channel and the National Geographic Channel. Cruddas has written for The Sunday Times, New Scientist, BBC Futures, Sky at Night Magazine, BBC On-line, BBC Focus, Grazia magazine and The Royal Aeronautical Society. Cruddas is the author of three children's books published by Dorling Kindersley: DK Find Out!: Solar System, Do You Know About Space? and The Space Race. The third become the first British children's book to travel to the edge of space after Cruddas launched the book using a balloon from the countryside near Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Since 2019 Cruddas has been a host of the television series 'Contact' on Discovery Channel and Science Channel
Personal life
Cruddas divides her time between London, England and Los Angeles United States In November 2012 she made a cameo appearance as a newsreader in Away from space, she is passionate about travel and has reported from across the world including; Australia, the Arctic, China, North Korea and Tibet.
