Esther Rantzen: The Consumer Queen Who Changed People's Lives
Esther Rantzen, Childline, The Silver Line, That’s Life!, consumer campaigning, British television history and the extraordinary legacy of one of the most recognisable broadcasters of the last half-century. In this episode of Mark and Pete, we look back at the life of Dame Esther Rantzen, not simply as a television personality, though she was certainly that, but as someone who used fame, rather unusually, to make life better for people who were being ignored.
Rantzen became a household name through the BBC’s That’s Life!, which mixed consumer complaints, investigative journalism, odd little…
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