Conference 2005

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Conference chair

Esther Rantzen OBE

Famous for her role as producer and presenter of That’s Life! Esther has also made pioneering programmes on childbirth, stillbirth, mental health, transplantation, drugs and child abuse. In 1986, she created ChildLine and is its chair. ChildLine now has 10 counselling centres across the UK and answers more than one and a half million calls a year. Esther also helped create the Association of Young People with ME, and is its president.

Esther has received the Royal Television Society’s Special Judge’s Award for Journalism, and membership of the RTC Hall of Fame. She was the first woman to receive the Dimbleby Award for factual presentation from the British Academy of Film and Television; the Variety Club of Great Britain awarded her BBC TV Personality of the Year; she received the Snowdon Award for services to disabled people; and in 1991 she was awarded the OBE for services to broadcasting.