Veteran broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86
It regularly attracted 20 million viewers for its mixture of serious consumer investigations and light-hearted items.She launched Childline, a British counselling service for children and young people, in 1986, and in 2013 she launched Silver Line to help elderly people suffering from isolation and loneliness. Later in life, she became a prominent campaigner for the legalisation of assisted dying.She had been terminally ill with lung cancer. Get Me Out of Here!Dame Esther was married to documentary film-maker Desmond Wilcox from 1977 until he died in 2000.
- ▪It regularly attracted 20 million viewers for its mixture of serious consumer investigations and light-hearted items.She launched Childline, a British counselling service for children and young people, in 1986, and in 2013 she launched Silv
- ▪Later in life, she became a prominent campaigner for the legalisation of assisted dying.She had been terminally ill with lung cancer.
- ▪Get Me Out of Here!Dame Esther was married to documentary film-maker Desmond Wilcox from 1977 until he died in 2000.
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Veteran broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: Dame Esther Rantzen, broadcaster, campaigner and charity founder, dies aged 86ByHelen BushbyCulture reporterPublished30 September 2026, 19:34 BSTUpdated 29 minutes agoDame Esther Rantzen, who presented BBC show That's Life! for 21 years and launched the charity Childline, has died at the age of 86.Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the veteran…
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