Bridget Kendall (born 27 April 1956) is an English journalist who was the BBC's Diplomatic correspondent working for the corporation's radio and television networks.

She then read Modern Languages at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford,[4] and spent two years in Russia on British Council scholarships in 1977 and 1982.

[5] Her postgraduate Soviet studies took her from St Antony's College, Oxford to Harvard University, where she spent two years as a Harkness Fellow in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

[9] She interviewed King Abdullah of Jordan for the BBC later in 2001, and hosted a similar event in Moscow with former Soviet President Gorbachev in 2002.

Kendall married freelance television journalist Nick Worrall in the early 1990s; they later divorced.