当她认真起来时，她是极其认真的。这位电视主持人推动了器官捐献，关闭了一所存在虐待行为的学校，创立了两条革命性的求助热线，并将协助死亡议题提上了未来几年的议程。
When she got serious, she got very serious. The TV host boosted organ donations, closed down a school for abuse, founded two revolutionary helplines – and put assisted dying on the agenda for years to come
- 从“儿童热线”到永远改变电视行业：埃丝特·兰岑的革命性人生 • 埃丝特·兰岑：从《这就是生活！》到“儿童热线”——图片回顾《这就是生活！》这档电视节目本不该成功。在超过20年的时间里，它就像一个荒诞的杂物袋，有时似乎专门为了让观众产生情绪上的剧烈波动而设计。
• From Childline to changing TV for ever: Esther Rantzen’s revolutionary life • Esther Rantzen: from That’s Life! to Childline – in pictures By no means should That’s Life! have ever worked as a television programme. For more than 20 years it functioned as an absurd grab bag of features that at times seemed specifically designed to induce tonal whiplash in its viewers.
为了证明这一点，《这就是生活！》不仅向全国介绍了会说“香肠”一词的会说话的狗“王子”，它还是向政府施压要求强制儿童使用安全带的节目。它曾为了愚人节玩笑发明了一种新动物，结果引来大批游客前往伦敦动物园试图一睹其真容。它也曾对一所男子寄宿学校教师普遍存在性虐待的指控进行了为期三个月的深入调查，最终导致该校在节目播出不到两周后便被关闭。
To demonstrate this point, That’s Life! was the show that introduced the nation to Prince, a talking dog who could say the word“sausages”, but it was also the show that put pressure on the government to introduce mandatory seatbelt use for children. This was the show that invented a new animal as an April fool’s joke, only for coachloads of tourists to arrive at London Zoo to try to spot it. It was also the show that embarked on a vigorous three-month investigation into allegations of widespread sexual abuse by teachers at a boys’ boarding school, resulting in the school’s closure less than two weeks after the feature aired.