Daily Mail

Did asbestos-filled BBC studios cause Dame Esther Rantzen's stage-four lung cancer? Ex-That's Life host, 83, asks if unhealthy buildings or air pollution triggered her ...

Dame Esther Rantzen has questioned whether asbestos in an old BBC building caused her to develop stage four lung cancer. The former That's Life! presenter, 83, worked in the broadcaster's Lime Grove ...
BBC

Lime Grove

The Lime Grove studios were originally built for the British film industry in 1915. At different times Gaumont, Gainsborough Pictures and Rank Films occupied the site, and some of the great names of ...
Daily Express

Dame Esther’s fears her 'cancer was caused by asbestos in BBC building'

EXCLUSIVE: BBC's Lime Grove studios in Shepherd's Bush where Dame Esther Rantzen worked for several decades, is claimed to have been riddled with asbestos. Dame Esther Rantzen says it is possible that ...
BBC

Opening of Lime Grove Studios

The BBC’s Lime Grove Studios officially opened on 21 May 1950. The site was bought from Rank Film Studios to fulfil the needs of the fast expanding television service in the 1950s. Although it was ...