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Interview with Esther Rantzen: Transcript of Sample ClipEsther Rantzen: When I joined Radio as a studio manager making sound effects, playing gramophone records, both for music and effects,. It was just after the great days of B.B.C. Radio, which I imagine would have been in the Fifti[…]
