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Alan Saunders (author and broadcaster)

Dr Alan Saunders (1954-2012) was an award winning broadcaster and writer, Alan Saunders is host of The Comfort Zone, an ABC radio programme which debates and celebrates the cultural significance of food, design, architecture and landscape. Dr

Early life
Born and educated in London, Alan Saunders has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Leicester and an M.Sc. in Logic and Scientific Method from the London School of Economics. Born the son of a london taxi-driver and educated in London, Dr Saunders studied philosophy at the University of Leicester, was also the president of the students' union.

He moved to Australia in 1981 to pursue research at the Australian National University's History of Ideas Unit, where he was subsequently awarded a PhD in 1989. In 1985 he was a Frances Yates Fellow of the Warburg Institute, University of London. Regular contributor to ABC radio

Radio career
After joining Radio National in 1987, Dr Saunders founded The Food Program and worked as a presenter on the Comfort Show. Adrian Ashton Award for architectural journalism by the New South Wales chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects and in 1999 it won the Bates Smart Award of the Victorian chapter.

By Design, Screen and the Philosopher’s Zone.

Arts culture
In 1993, Alan Saunders was a member of the judging panel of the Dendy Awards for Australian short films. He has chaired and addressed annual conferences of the Board of Film and Literature Classification and is a former Vice-President of the Film Critics' Circle of Australia.

Alan Saunders writes regularly on food for Good Weekend. He has been a columnist for the 'Good Living' supplement to The Sydney Morning Herald, The Bulletin, City Weekly, Australian Way, The Australian Financial Review Magazine, Food Australia and Modern Times, and a record reviewer for New Woman. He has contributed to Vogue, Vogue Entertaining, The Australian, The Sydney Review, 21C, Twenty-Four House, Plenty, Cuisine, The Canberra Times, The Literary Review and The Times Literary Supplement. He has appeared at numerous writer’s festivals and twice been a speaker in the ABC 'World Series' debates. He was in demand as a public speaker and has been a judge for many food, architectural and design awards.

Author
Alan’s first book, A is for Apple, was published by Reed Books in 1995, and in 1999 he was the author of the extensive introduction to Australian Food: celebration of the new cuisine (Lansdowne Publishing). Alan Saunder's first novel, Alanna, will be published by Penguin in 2002.

Death
Dr Saunders fell ill while working on his regular program The Philosopher’s Zone in Sydney

Awards
1992- Pascall Prize for critical writing and broadcasting

2006 - A Special Media Award from the Australasian Association for Philosophy. 2007 - Australasian Association of Philosophy's Special Media Prize.