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Name: Esther Rantzen
Field:
Broadcaster
Productions:
An Audience With Trevor McDonald
An Audience With Esther Rantzen
Biography After Dinner Speaker: Esther Rantzen OBE is an ideal choice as an After Dinner Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Celebrity Speaker.
Esther Rantzen graduated from Oxford and joined the BBC where her first job was in radio as a sound effects assistant. From there she moved to television, first as a clerk, then as a researcher for the consumer programme Braden’s Week. She also made a number of pioneering programmes on subjects such as British women’s experience of childbirth, stillbirth, drugs and child abuse. While preparing the programme on child abuse in 1986, she invented the concept of ChildLine, a telephone helpline for children in trouble or danger who dare not ask for help elsewhere. ChildLine now has ten counselling centres across the UK and answers more than one and a half million calls a year. Esther is available for After Dinner Speaking, Keynote Speaking and Celebrity Speaking events.
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