Child on the Line

Natalie Dormer

In 1986, Esther Rantzen went live on BBC television with a promise no one had made before: any child, anywhere in the country, could pick up the phone and be heard. That night, more than 50,000 children tried to call. Forty years on, Childline answers a child every 45 seconds. In Child on the Line, actor and Childline…