James Valentine public memorial LIVE: Influential ABC broadcaster farewelled at Sydney Town Hall

Live: Friends, loyal listeners gather for James Valentine's public memorial

ABC radio presenter James Valentine, who died aged 64 after choosing voluntary assisted dying following a two-year cancer diagnosis, is being remembered at a public memorial service at Sydney's Town Hall. Valentine spent 30 years at the ABC, building a distinctive talkback format on 702 ABC Sydney's Afternoons that made him one of Australian public radio's most recognisable voices.