I was astonished that your article (From Attenborough’s gorilla mayhem to TV’s first gay kiss: the 100 biggest moments from a century of television, 23 January) omitted the wonderful, moving moment on That’s Life! when Sir Nicholas Winton’s achievement in saving 669 children from the Holocaust was revealed, to him, to them and to viewers. It has been watched more than 40m times since it first aired and Piers Morgan has called it the best moment ever on television. Sir Nicholas’s example should never be forgotten.
I was lucky enough to be there at the time (as I was as a researcher in the gallery) during one of the moments you do mention, when the F-word was first said on television, and I remember vividly how producer Ned Sherrin reacted.
Esther Rantzen
Bramshaw, Hampshire
