Dame Esther Louise Rantzen DBE is an English journalist and television presenter, best known for presenting the hit BBC television series Thats Life foryears from 1973 until 1994. She is well known for her work with various charitable causes. She is founder of the child protection charity ChildLine, which she set up in 1986, and The Silver Line, designed to combat loneliness, which she set up in 2012.
Rantzen was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, to Katherine Flora Rantzen and Henry Barnato Rantzen . Rantzen has one younger sister, Priscilla N. Taylor. She attended Buckley Country Day School in New York leaving in 1950. She was educated at North London Collegiate School, and Somerville College, Oxford, where she read English, performed with the Oxford University Dramatic Society , became Secretary of the Experimental Theatre Club and joined the Oxford Theatre Group, performing in Oxford and Edinburgh.
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