Terry Wogan was featured and Esther Rantzen was responsible for the sound effects.

Berkhamsted was also the birthplace of television presenters Esther Rantzen ( 1940 ) Nick Owen ( 1947 ), and the singer Sarah Brightman ( 1960 ).

Rantzen was planning a documentary film to chronicle a relative unknown's rise to pop-music stardom.

was a magazine-style television series on BBC1 between 26 May 1973 and 19 June 1994, presented by Esther Rantzen throughout the entire run, with various changes of co-presenters.

Britain's telephone helpline for children, ChildLine, was developed by Rantzen following items on the programme.

Rantzen was a reporter on this show, while her future husband, Desmond Wilcox, was an editor.

However, although Braden himself was publicly circumspect about the decision, his wife Barbara Kelly ( also a TV presenter ) was forthright in condemning it and was plainly hostile towards Rantzen.

Almost thirty years later Kelly told Alice Pitman of The Oldie that she was " very bitter at the time, very, very bitter " and recalled that Braden's producer, Desmond Wilcox, who subsequently married Rantzen, had brought together Kelly, Rantzen and newsreader Angela Rippon for a pilot of an afternoon show, although, in Kelly's view, " it was just a front-he wanted Esther, and Angela and I were sort of left dangling.

Hosted by Rantzen with Paul Heiney & Chris Serle, the items were aimed at children, with two boys – one of whom was future BBC journalist Shaun Ley – reading out the humorous items in place of Cyril Fletcher.

Rantzen was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, to Katherine Flora ( née Leverson, 1911 – 2005 ) and Henry Barnato Rantzen ( 1902 – 1992 ).

After training in secretarial skills, Rantzen was recruited by BBC Radio as a trainee studio manager.

Rantzen was one of the founders of TV-am, the company selected to launch ITV's breakfast television service.

In 2006, Rantzen took part in the BBC Two programmes Would Like to Meet and Excuse my French, and was selected to present a new consumer affairs show with former Watchdog presenter Lynn Faulds Wood, under the title Old Dogs New Tricks.

Rantzen was the fifth celebrity to leave the camp.

Two days later, Moran announced she would not be standing at the next General Election, but Rantzen said she was still considering standing herself.

In 1977 Rantzen married the award-winning documentary-maker Desmond Wilcox, who was the head of her department and made documentaries such as The Visit, which included a series of programmes about The Boy David.

After his conversion to Judaism ( Rantzen is Jewish ), the couple had a second wedding ceremony in 1999 in the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, which was covered by Hello!

That year, one of her Academy tutors coaxed her into auditioning for Esther Rantzen, producer of the BBC programme The Big Time.

In 1986 Esther Rantzen, presenter of That's Life !, a popular consumer TV show, suggested to the BBC that they create " Childwatch ", a programme about child abuse, the aim being to try to detect children at risk before their lives were in danger.

Rantzen, together with her BBC producers Sarah Caplin and Ritchie Cogan, therefore suggested they should create a helpline specifically for children in danger or distress, to be open throughout the year, 24 / 7, and launch it on the programme.

Esther Louise Rantzen, CBE ( born 22 June 1940 ) is an English journalist and television presenter, who is best known for presenting the BBC television series That's Life !, and for her work in various charitable causes.

In 1968, Rantzen became one of the onscreen presenters of the BBC consumer show Braden's Week, presented by Bernard Braden.

But before the station went on air in 1983, Rantzen dropped out, opting to remain with the BBC.

Having made programmes about stillbirth ( The Lost Babies ), and mental health ( Trouble in Mind ), in 1985 Rantzen presented a BBC One programme on drug abuse, Drugwatch.

Rantzen suggested that after that edition of That's Life !, the BBC should open a helpline for children, in case any young viewers suffering current abuse wished to ring in to ask for help.

In 2004, Rantzen participated in the second series of the BBC One show Strictly Come Dancing ( later exported to the U. S. as Dancing With The Stars ).

On 26 May 2009, Rantzen announced her intention to stand as an independent candidate for Parliament, if the incumbent Labour MP Margaret Moran stood for Luton South again, on Stephen Rhodes BBC Three Counties Breakfast Show.

Rantzen was also honoured in the BBC Comedy series Bottom when she had a cocktail named after her.

In the BBC programme Rantzen professed her gratitude for the comfortable upbringing she had enjoyed in Hampstead but also, having visited the site of the family home in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw later destroyed by the Nazis after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, she was moved by " survivor guilt ".

Esther Rantzen had originally been one of the station's ' star ' line up of presenter / shareholders, but she was persuaded to remain with the BBC.

Michael Parkinson did remain with the BBC who hoped to persuade him to stay as they had with Rantzen, but he finally left the corporation in 1982.

Among the talented viewers the series discovered were Annie Mizen, the show-stopping granny Rantzen met in the North End Road Street Market, a man who tap-danced on his false teeth, and another who played Amazing Grace on his fork-lift truck.

Rantzen also devised the documentary series The Big Time in 1976, which launched the singing career of Sheena Easton.

In 1988, Rantzen created a TV series called Hearts of Gold celebrating people who have performed unsung acts of outstanding kindness or courage.

Rantzen appeared on the 2008 series of ITV show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !.

Layton was also one of the main presenters on the original series of That's Life !, hosted by Esther Rantzen.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

He was right, and Peter Marshall could not help but recall Andrew Cordier's words on the subject, `` Well, it seemed as good a place as any to do the job ''.

Richard Peters, Secretary of the Board of War, thought Morgan was so extreme on the subject that he accused him of trying to pick a quarrel.

In summary, Brooks Adams felt that the nature of history was order and that the order so discovered was as much subject to historical laws as the forces of nature.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

It was hardly possible to get any argument on the subject.

The wording of the question was quite general and may have been subject to different interpretations.

It was recognized that skywave signals, because of their reflected nature, are of great variability and subject to wide fluctuations in strength.

Alcohol ingestion succeeded in changing immobility to mobility quite strikingly in one pilot subject ( the only one with whom this technique was tried ).

There was evident delight on the part of the subject in response to her experience of the freedom of movement.

One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??

This subject was one who gave an arm-elevation on the second trial in the naive state but not in the first.

More time was spent in trying to marry these incompatibles than over any subject discussed at Yalta.

and as the aspect of the subject was transposed into those clusters of more or less interchangeable and contour-obliterating facet-planes by which plasticity was isolated under the Cubist method, the subject itself became largely unrecognizable.

With this seven-word sentence -- though the speaker undoubtedly thought he was dealing only with the subject of food -- he was telling things about himself and, in the last two examples, revealing that he had departed from the customs of his culture.