The daughter of the early public relations advocate Basil Saunders and his journalist wife Betty (née Smith), Saunders has worked for newspapers and magazines in the United Kingdom, including The Sunday Times, Sunday Express, Daily Telegraph, She and Cosmopolitan.
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. She was, with Sandi Toksvig, a guest on the first episode of the long-running news quiz programme Have I Got News for You. She has written many books, such as "The Wild Young Bohemians" and also co-wrote Catholics and Sex (1992) with Peter Stanford who was then editor of the Catholic Herald Saunders and Stanford later presented a television series based on the book on Channel 4.
Saunders is also an actress, appearing as a policewoman dated by Rodney Trotter in an episode of Only Fools and Horses in 1982.
