Sadie Kaye


Sadie Kaye is a Hong Kong TV & radio presenter, filmmaker, writer and actress. She's a presenter on RTHK.

Career

Raised in Sai Kung, Hong Kong, Kaye started in television presenting children's series Beezwacks on TVB. After attending Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, she lived in London and presented Eat Your Words on ITV. She created and presented ETV comedy series Dinner Party and appeared as an actress in sketch shows, including Sack the Writer. She helped judge Channel 4 competition Comedy Circuit and appeared in Channel 4 series The New Entrepreneurs. In 2006 she was a partner in indie Blue Reef.
She produced and presented a series of 3 Minute Wonders for Channel 4 about the 2009 Centre for Social Justice Awards and documentary films Sailing Miss Sadie and Tucker's Luck for Sky. In both films she mentors young offenders from The Prince's Trust.
She appeared as an actress in western film West of Thunder and comedy FLIM the Movie. In 2020 she co-produced Transference: A Bipolar Love Story with the producers of Flim.
Kaye returned to Hong Kong in 2014. Having piloted the character on Funny or Die, she began presenting comic slots as 'Miss Adventure' on RTHK Radio 3. She's produced and presented two documentaries for RTHK, Bipolar Express and As Bad As It Gets. Bipolar Express was Highly Commended in the Radio Creative Feature category by the Association for International Broadcasting in 2015. As Bad As It Gets, about OCD, aired in 2019. Since 2020 she's presented Mental Ideas, a weekly strand of RTHK Radio 3's 123 Show. She'd previously appeared on the show as a guest.

Publications

Her children's book The Wishing Machine was published 31 October 2014.

Charity

She set up and runs nonprofit groups Bipolar Hong Kong and Mental Ideas.