Dame Esther Louise Rantzen DBE (22 June 1940 – 30 September 2026) was an English journalist and television presenter who presented the BBC television series "That's Life!" for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She worked with various charitable causes and founded the charities Childline, a helpline for children, in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness in older people's lives, in 2012.
A Night in with the Girls
Wogan: Now You're Talking
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Barry Humphries at the BBC
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Tales of Television Centre
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That's GCSE
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Royal Variety Performance 1984
The Tranquilliser Trap
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Room 101
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The Terry and Gaby Show
We Need Answers
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Countdown
The Big Questions
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Pebble Mill
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GMTV
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It's Only TV But I Like It
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Daytime Live
Children In Need
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Who Do You Think You Are?
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An Audience with...
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Wogan
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Cash in the Celebrity Attic
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The Home That 2 Built
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Wogan
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Wogan
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That's Life!
Going Live!
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Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
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I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
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Question Time
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Ready, Steady, Cook
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Parkinson
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Esther
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The Baby Boomers' Guide to Growing Old
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ITV Exposure
TFI Friday