They fleece the Sunday audience (8)
I believe the answer is:
shearers
'they fleece' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'sunday audience' is the wordplay.
'sunday' becomes 's'.
'audience' becomes 'hearers' (I've seen this before).
's'+'hearers'='SHEARERS'
'the' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for shearers that I've seen before include "wool-gatherers" , "They fleece" , "They cut the wool from sheep" , "They remove wool from sheep" .)