Kate Saunders (born 1960) is an English author, actress and journalist. The daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders[1] and his journalist wife Betty (née Smith),[2] Saunders has worked for newspapers and magazines in the UK, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and Cosmopolitan.[3]
She has also been a regular contributor to radio and television, with appearances on the Radio 4 programmes Woman's Hour, Start the Week and Kaleidoscope.[4] She was, with Sandi Toksvig, a guest on the first episode of the long-running news quiz programme Have I Got News for You.[5]
Saunders has also written multiple books for children and for adults.
She has written many books, such as "The Wild Young Bohemians" and also co-wrote Catholics and Sex (1992) with Peter Stanford[6] which resulted in Stanford's being forced to resign as Editor of the UK's Catholic Herald[7][8] Saunders and Stanford later presented a television series based on the book on Channel 4.[9]
Saunders is also an actress, appearing as a policewoman dated by Rodney Trotter in an episode of Only Fools and Horses in 1982.[10]