Ellee Seymour (Free subscription) | 02/06/2009
... investigate Esther’s previous career at the BBC, and in particular how she and her late husband, Desmond Wilcox, managed to bypass the BBC rule that husband and wife should not be allowed to work in the same department.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009
... entertainment group, conceded the "team seemed to have some sort of death wish". It was left to Desmond Wilcox, then editor of Man Alive, to defend the programme, asking what was wrong with "cruel humour".
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 24/05/2009
... her flagship TV ventures sank without trace, Rantzen lost the love of her life when her husband Desmond Wilcox, the celebrated film-maker, died. Throwing herself into politics is just the latest manifestation of how she has rebuilt her life after that low point and refused to be herded towards retirement. Esther Louise Rantzen was born in June 1940 into a family of liberal Jews in...
