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Esther Rantzen

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English television presenter

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Dame Esther Louise Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994.

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Esther Rantzen
said · Apr 24, 2010
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My older daughter, Emily, had ME for 14 years. Thankfully she is better now and lives with me.

"My family values: Esther Rantzen", The Guardian (24 April 2010).

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Esther Rantzen
said · Dec 14, 2021
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The Nationwide editor, Michael Bunce, asked me if there was any particular film I'd like to make for them, so I asked if they would send me to Belfast to report on the Troubles.

"Esther Rantzen on misogyny in broadcasting - 'women's roles were as handmaidens'", The Times (14 December 2021).

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Esther Rantzen
said · Dec 16, 2023
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The episode of February 28, 1988, was just a normal one in the BBC’s consumer series That's Life!. ...

"How we broke the story of Holocaust hero Nicholas Winton", The Times (16 December 2023).

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Filmography 7

Barry Humphries at the BBC2023
Tales of Television Centre2012
Royal Variety Performance 19841984
Wogan: Now You're Talking2021
A Night in with the Girls1997
That's GCSE1987
The Tranquilliser Trap2001

37 credits on file

Television 24

Wogan1982
Ready, Steady, Cook1994
GMTV1993
Question Time1979
Who Do You Think You Are?2004
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip2011
Room 1011994
Pebble Mill1991
An Audience with...1978
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!2002
Going Live!1987
Countdown1982
Parkinson1998
That's Life!1973
Daytime Live1987
The Terry and Gaby Show2003
The Big Questions2007
Children In Need1980
It's Only TV But I Like It1999
ITV Exposure2011
We Need Answers2009
Hearts of Gold
Cash in the Celebrity Attic2008
The Home That 2 Built2014

Awards 3

2006Commander of the Order of the British Empire
1991Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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About this person

Dame Esther Louise Rantzen is an English journalist and television presenter who presented the BBC television series That's Life! for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes and founded the charities Childline, a helpline for children, which she set up in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, which she set up in November 2012.

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Country
United Kingdom
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Type
Actor
Status
living
Dates
Born 1940 · age 86
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