Catherine King

Catherine Helen King (; 20 December 1904 – 2 January 2000) was an ABC broadcaster and community worker in Western Australia. She was the daughter of prominent Australian academic and essayist Sir Walter Murdoch.

In 1942 King campaigned to start a radio program for children in Western Australia, and succeeded with the Kindergarten of the Air. She chose Margaret Graham to voice the program, which ran for many years.

On 4 September 1944, King's daily radio program was called the ABC Women's Session. The program was broadcast throughout WA and included music, live interviews and discussion on subjects from science and arts to cooking and parenting. It was based on the premise that women who were not in the paid workforce were thinking people with wide interests and concerns. King and Underwood travelled in regional WA in an ABC van meeting women who listened to the program.

In 1960 King was appointed to present a half-hour weekly television program, Women’s World, in addition to her radio commitments. In 1966 King gave up her ABC position to travel with Alec to Melbourne, where he had been offered a chair in English at Monash University. Her final program was broadcast in 1976.

King was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for services to the community in 1966.

King died on 2 January 2000 in Mosman Park, Western Australia.

Children's book Australian Holiday (1945) (in collaboration with Alec King)