Dame Esther Rantzen

Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth / Plain Jaine Media

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Dame Esther Rantzen is a tour de force: journalist, TV presenter and campaigner, her vision and dynamism brought about the nationwide helpline for children in distress, Childline. Through her massively popular consumer show That's Life, Esther was also responsible for campaigning for organ donation and introducing compulsory seatbelts for children, at the same time as showcasing viewers' faulty washing machines and laughing at misshapen vegetables. Recently, That's Life's incredible reunion of Sir Nicholas Winton with the children he had rescued from the Holocaust in Prague has been made the subject of the film One Life starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. Gyles and Dame Esther spoke over Zoom, and the interview was recorded in two parts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunt break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nam time go on play some other time
0:22.7	put your phone down
0:23.9	Tombollah
0:24.7	open for fun
0:26.5	Terms apply 18 plus gamble
0:28.5	aware.org
0:29.4	Hello
0:31.3	I'm Giles Brandreth
0:33.2	and this is Rosebud
0:34.9	I'm Giles Brandreth and this is Rosebud. My guest today is the journalist, television presenter, campaigner, Dame Esther Ranssen.
1:03.0	Dame Esther has been a unique pioneering figure in British broadcasting for more than 50 years.
1:10.0	That's life was on the BBC for over 20 years
1:13.1	from 1973 and she's been entertaining, informing and challenging us ever since in all kinds of
1:20.7	ways. It was through That's Life that Esther developed her extraordinary skill as a champion of good
1:26.7	causes. She orchestrated one of the first
1:28.7	truly viral campaigns when she set up child line, a helpline for children in danger or distress
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