Esther Rantzen

But yeah, he wa- he clearly wasn't one to bask in any sort of self-glorification about what he'd done.

And that was the impression actually when I saw that clip when Esther Rantzen died.

Mm.

He looked quite, um, well, very shocked when all the people behind him and around him turned out to be th- those children who he heroically saved, uh, in just before or early part of the war.

We've given a load more money and weapons to Zelensky, that's not gonna go down with Putin.

So do they know something that we don't? Why are they concentr- concentrating on car park charges? So what we need, Andy, is for you to stop trying to be a cross, I like this line by the way, a cross between Esther Rantzen, God bless her soul, and Martin Lewis.

We don't need another bloody consumer champion, we need a leader.

Dare I say it, we need a leader like Trump who says, "You've just gotta stop it.

It's just ranty, isn't it? It's ranty, isn't it? And can I just say, R.I.P.

Esther Rantzen.

Oh, mate.

Is that poor taste? If that offends anyone...

But in fact, the bargains buyers left the big house with, they were cheap imitations, worthless tat.

Eventually, he was rumbled when some of the people he duped contacted an at the time new consumer affairs investigations program at the BBC called That's Life, fronted by a young reporter named Esther Rantzen.

Lots of rags to riches stories end up back where they began.

My paternal grandfather was bankrupted and seemed to be on the point of going to prison, a fate he opted to avoid in nineteen ninety-five by taking his own life with a gun.

Um, I, I, I double-checked this while you were talking, uh, 'cause I, I don't follow things, um, announced by Nigel Farage that closely 'cause he might unannounce them tomorrow, and the rest of the British media is fa-- doing a perfectly adequate job of amplifying his every utterance.

But your father was a beneficiary of the Kindertransport, something that was very much in our minds when Esther Rantzen passed away last week.

Yes.

Because, of course, she did that extraordinary, um, a, a, a sort of studio ambush of, of, of the father, the British father of Kindertransport.

And, uh, that actually reminds me of, I don't know whether you heard, and I think he's, I think he's a brilliant radio reporter, David Sillito, who i- is the absolute master of, of packages, as we would call them, w- that are obituaries.

And when, when Esther Rantzen died a couple of weeks ago, David Sillito's l- l- lengthy package was a brilliant piece of work, and it also, it included the, it included the line, which was something like, "And it even included dogs that said," and then he included the clip where the dog says, "Sausages." [laughs]

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It's, it was brilliant.

And I, I thought, "Oh, I'm gonna actually gonna have to show you, like, clips of That's Life in order for you to get it," which is partly why I didn't end up showing, showing it to you.

But, uh, yeah, her as Esther Rantzen is extraordinary.

Oh, really? Oh, she's ...

I mean, sh- they're all so amazing.