Childline founder and broadcaster Esther Rantzen dies at 86

Esther Rantzen’s family announced that the broadcaster and Childline founder died at 86, The Guardian reports. She presented the BBC’s That’s Life! for 21 years and launched Childline in 1986, giving children a confidential way to seek help. Rantzen had publicly discussed living with stage-four lung cancer; her family’s announcement did not specify a cause of death.