Esther Rantzen Esther Rantzen Dame Esther Louise Rantzen (born 22 June 1940) is an English journalist and television presenter, who presented the BBC television series "That's Life!" for 21 years, from 1973 until 1994. She works with various charitable causes, and founded the charities ChildLine, promoting child protection, 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 ("née" Leverson, 1911–2005) and Henry Barnato Rantzen (1902–1992). She has one younger sister, Priscilla N. Taylor. She attended Buckley Country Day School in
Tom Toumazis from Disney, who has been connected to Childline and the rest is history”, Toumazis said in May 2015. Toumazis launched the Childline 20 Board in 2005 to mark Childline’s 20th anniversary. Under his stewardship, the Childline Board has raised £12.5m+ and introduced a number of media and entertainment companies to Childline including Disney, Reuters, Discovery, Trinity Mirror, ITV, Google and Yahoo. In 2012, Toumazis co-founded the Monday Movie Club with the support of the US and UK film distributors. The monthly screenings have raised over £630,000. Childline has worked with TV shows such as "Downton Abbey", "Britain's Got Talent", "X