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    Dame Esther Louise Rantzen DBE (born 22 June 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series That's Life...
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  • inserts. Devised by Peter Chafer, John Lloyd and Esther Rantzen, it was presented and produced by Esther Rantzen with various teams of reporters and contributors...
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    Phillips Esther Pohl Lovejoy Esther D. du Pont Esther Porter Esther Tuttle Pritchard Esther Pugh Esther Rahim Esther Ralston Esther Rantzen Esther Raziel...
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  • Life! production team, a TV show produced by the BBC with presenter Esther Rantzen. Winton is invited onto the show and asked to sit in the audience. That's...
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    finished in third place. For the second series, he partnered presenter Esther Rantzen; they were eliminated in the third week. He danced with actress Patsy...
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  • Esther is a British talk show presented by Esther Rantzen. It was aired on BBC Two between 24 October 1994 and 10 May 2002 and over 600 episodes were...
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  • 12 was broadcast in 1981. Devised and produced by Esther Rantzen and narrated initially by Rantzen but later by John Pitman, Paul Heiney and Norma Shepherd...
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  • British television presenter and actor. He appeared on That's Life! with Esther Rantzen for seven years until 1994. The programme regularly attracted 20 million...
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  • first marriage he had an eight-year affair with television presenter Esther Rantzen, and in 1977 he married her after obtaining a divorce from Patsy. There...
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  • Hearts of Gold was a BBC television programme devised and presented by Esther Rantzen, with Michael Groth and Carol Smillie as co-presenters. Running for...
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    BBC's 1981 comedy series The Olympian Way and in 1988 the long-running Esther Rantzen programme Hearts of Gold. De Paul was a celebrity participant in the...
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  • of children who suffer from primary liver disease. British celebrity Esther Rantzen, who hosted That's Life! and co-wrote a book based on Ben's story, was...
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    United Kingdom. The new format, presented by Terry Wogan, Sue Lawley and Esther Rantzen, saw a dramatic increase in public donations: £1 million was raised...
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  • programme. Other programmes planned for Boom Radio include a show with Esther Rantzen and her daughter, Rebecca Wilcox, Still Busy Living, described as the...
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  • directed by Howard Greenhalgh. After Michael's death in 2016, Dame Esther Rantzen, founder of the charity ChildLine, revealed that Michael had secretly...
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  • middle of three children born to journalist and television presenter Esther Rantzen and producer Desmond Wilcox, she has an older sister, Emily, and younger...
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  • older people. She was a founder of Childline, together with her cousin Esther Rantzen and also The Silver Line. She was educated at the University of York...
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    called Children in Need, with Wogan presenting alongside Sue Lawley and Esther Rantzen. He campaigned extensively for the charity, and often involved himself...
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  • number, Board of Trustees and CEO. The helpline was established by Dame Esther Rantzen, who founded the children's helpline ChildLine in 1986. She wrote about...
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    counsellor and is one of their spokespeople along with the charity's founder Esther Rantzen. In December 2012, she hosted a ChildLine Gala concert alongside Jason...
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  • benefits. MPs debates assisted dying after a petition started by Dame Esther Rantzen was signed by 200,000 people, triggering a parliamentary debate. SDLP...
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    Celebrity Special (27 September 2014) – Contestant with Natalie Anderson, Esther Rantzen, and Brian McFadden; won Loose Women (2014) – Guest presenter Celebrity...
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    give as little or as much personal information as they wish. In 1986 Esther Rantzen, presenter of consumer television show That's Life!, suggested to the...
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    parliamentary Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, and Dame Esther Rantzen. The BBC's Director General, Tim Davie, stated that Lineker's pay was...
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  • host and pianist on the Radio 4 quiz My Music. He died in 2009. Dame Esther Rantzen – presenter and reporter on Braden's Week and Man Alive during the 1960s...
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  • popular 1970s BBC television programme That's Life!, which featured Esther Rantzen covering various human interest and consumer topics. A "Jobsworth of...
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    Esther Louise Rantzen v Mirror Group Newspapers (1986) Ltd., Brian Radford, Richard Stott and Mirror Group Newspapers plc. [1993] EWCA Civ 16, [1993]...
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    story as a practical joke. When asked in a television interview with Esther Rantzen some years later whether Starr really had eaten a hamster, his reply...
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    in Public Life, failed to have any significant impact. Broadcaster Esther Rantzen gathered a great deal of publicity for her campaign in Luton South constituency...
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    2021, she appeared on the podcast of the founder of Childline, Dame Esther Rantzen, to support the charity, saying: "I genuinely believe, other than climate...
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