Biography: Over a career spanning five decades, Dame Esther Rantzen has appeared in more than 2,000 television broadcasts. Rantzen is best known for being the presenter of the BBC’s That’s Life, a topical entertainment show, from 1973 to 1994. GEOGRAPHY CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING I grew up in a village in Transylvania and only saw the Black Sea once when I was nine years old on a summer camp. It’s quite fun having children later in life – you’ve got your work ambitions out of the way and you don’t wish you could go out to dinner more often – you’ve done all of that.

We used to sing around the piano as a family twice a week and there was a picture on it of my mother’s cousin, a commander in the Australian navy. I was then out of work for six months and that was really important, because once that has happened to you, you never want it to happen again. His career takes him all over the world, but he lives in London, where he also works as a piano teacher. Rantzen explains she’s in “favour of nudity” because if we all did it more often “everyone would accept body hair and lumps”.I was bought up on a farm in Chester and even though my degree was in agriculture, I could see that was not going to be for me so I changed my tack completely and went on to instructing because I love motoring. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

There’s a terrific definition of it, which definitely applied to me after I lost my husband Desmond. Other important lessons she’s learned over the years include prioritising spending time with your loved ones, health is the only thing that truly matters, and that naps are one of the “happy discoveries of growing older”. It’s an easy to dip-into miscellany of observation and tips for living, penned by one of the most influential TV journalists Britain has ever embraced! Part of it is because from birth, society or people have expectations of how you should ‘be’ at a certain age.The veteran TV presenter told the Daily Mirror she’s on “new medications” but that “nobody knows if it’s working or not”. Probably that’s what it’s for, because if you think about it, if you were sane, would you do such an inelegant, unhygienic thing? She is also a reality TV favourite with appearances on Strictly Come Dancing, First Dates and I'm a Celebrity.