Dame Esther Rantzen has paid tribute to That’s Life! co-star Chris Serle for being “funny, clever and charming” in the wake of his death aged 81. The family of former BBC radio and TV ...

Esther Rantzen in the That’s Life office at BBC Lime Grove in 1991. The show ran for an extraordinary 21 years and transformed consumer programming.

Dame Esther Rantzen has said her broadcasting career would not be as successful if she joined the industry now as a young woman because she would not be "pretty enough". The former That's Life!