Dame Esther Rantzen: That's Life! presenter, Childline founder and assisted dying campaigner

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Link: Dame Esther Rantzen: That's Life! presenter, Childline founder and assisted dying campaigner - BBC News

 

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Dame Esther Rantzen, who has died at the age of 86, was best known for presenting the BBC TV programme That's Life!

 

Over two decades, what started as a consumer programme with quirky asides became renowned for its high-profile campaigns, notably against child abuse.

 

It resulted in Dame Esther setting up Childline, a national telephone helpline for children suffering abuse or neglect.

 

She later became a renowned campaigner for older people and, in the last years of her life, for the legalisation of medically-assisted death.

 

Esther Louise Rantzen was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire on 22 June 1940. Her paternal ancestors were Polish Jews...