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spokesperson for children, and latterly working to set up The Silver Line, the new helpline for isolated and vulnerable older people. Childline currently has 12 centres around the UK, plus one virtual on-line base,1,500 volunteer counsellors and answers around a million calls and on-line contacts from children each year. Rantzen chaired
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In addition to her television career, as a patron or vice-president of 55 charities, she mainly concentrates on working for children, vulnerable older people and disabled people. Much of her voluntary effort has been for
Childline as a volunteer counsellor on the helpline, and as a fund-raiser and
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out of Wilcox's department. The new arrangement meant that
Rantzen and Patsy were now working in the same department, embarrassing Rantzen and causing further pain to Patsy. Patsy Wilcox had always refused to divorce her husband, but agreed when Rantzen became pregnant. After Rantzen and Wilcox
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ran on BBC1 for 21 years from 1973 to 1994, becoming one of the most popular shows on
British television, reaching audiences of more than 18 million. During that time, it expanded the traditional role of the consumer programme from simply exposing faulty washing machines and dodgy salesmen, to
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was influential in many different ways, not least in the introduction of the videolink for child witnesses in court procedures, and it was responsible for the launch of
Childline in 1986, the first national helpline for children in danger or distress. Rantzen had suggested the
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newspaper, subsequently claimed that, using a different name, she had told
Rantzen 18 years earlier of allegations that she had heard about Savile. Rantzen has denied hearing specific allegations and said she had no recollection of a conversation with Keenan.
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for services to children and older people through
Childline and The Silver Line. She is patron for a number of charities, including the charity Operation Encompass, and is a trustee for the charity Silver Stories.
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also had some humorous spots, such as readings of amusing misprints sent in by viewers; it also featured comic songs that often matched the theme of each show, specially written and performed by artists such as
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after the death of a toddler who had starved to death, locked in a bedroom. The aim of the programme was to find better ways of detecting children at risk of abuse; to that end, viewers of
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1563:"Call comes for Dame ChildLine"
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1953:Brand, Katy (5 October 2012).
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