Peter James Stanford (born 23 November 1961) is an English writer, editor, journalist and presenter, known for his biographies and writings on religion and ethics.

His resignation, to concentrate on writing books, coincided with the publication of Catholics and Sex, which he co-authored with fellow journalist Kate Saunders.

[7] Subsequent TV and radio work includes presenting The Devil: An Unauthorised Biography (BBC1, 1996) and Pope Joan (BBC1, 1998), both based on his own books.

The Devil: A Biography (1996),[13] 50 Religious Ideas You Really Need To Know (2010)[14] and Judas: The Troubling History of the Renegade Apostle (2015) were all translated into five languages.

Stanford, whose mother had multiple sclerosis,[15] was chair of Aspire, Britain’s national charity for people with spinal cord injury, from 1991 until 2001 and again from 2005 until 2012.