Six years later, Esther was disillusioned with the revolution, in danger because of her interest in rock music and working as a translator and interpreter with Radio Peking. She was eight months pregnant when she married Alan Winnington, a journalist with the communist Daily Worker (the forerunner of The Morning Star). They moved to East Berlin. Wanting to reward him for his services, the paper gave Winnington his heart's desire of a British car and got a Daily Worker colleague, Lance Samson, to deliver it.