James Valentine showed us what public broadcasting could be at its very best. It’s a legacy I hope to live up to (opens in new tab)

The public grief is enormous but it keeps giving way to joy, to moments of hilarity that have stayed with listeners for years‘On his own terms’: James Valentine chose assisted dying but barriers remain for Australians wanting to access itLike so many of you, my experience of James Valentine was almost entirely through radio. I’m an ABC broadcaster in regional New South Wales, many hours drive from the Sydney studios where he conjured radio magic out of thin air every weekday and, as I’d sit i...