
DThe point of Esther Rantzen: Living with Grief was to show that everybody grieves in their own way; the pain is bespoke. As a documentary it was, sadly, perfectly timed. Death has topped the news every day for the past year. “How many dead today?” people are used to asking as if inquiring about the weather. But what of the bereaved relatives left behind when we move on to the next daily statistic? The people who now have grief as a constant pillion passenger and are