Esther Rantzen, campaigning British television presenter, dies aged 86 ↧ ↧ Esther Rantzen, campaigning British television presenter, dies aged 86 Esther Rantzen, the British television presenter whose show "That's Life!" made her a weekly fixture in living rooms of the 1970s and 1980s, and who was a prominent supporter of a campaign for Britain to legalise assisted dying, died on Wednesday aged 86.