00:00Radio host and musician James Valentine has died at the age of 64.
00:04The broadcaster had been a fixture on the ABC since his first appearance on the afternoon show for kids in
00:101987.
00:13Look, look, I don't want to hear anything more about it, the afternoon show's over, so it's off to bed,
00:19he buys, OK?
00:20He'd worked in radio since 1999.
00:23In 2024, he revealed on air that he had esophageal cancer and would be taking time off to undergo surgery.
00:32He took further leave in June 2025 after revealing new tumours had been found.
00:38He officially retired from the ABC in February 2026.
00:42His wife Joanne and their two children, Ruby and Roy,
00:46announced Valentine had made the choice to use voluntary assisted dying
00:51to end his life in April 2026.
00:54In a statement, the family said,
00:56James passed peacefully at home, surrounded by his family who adored him.
01:02Throughout his illness, James did it his way,
01:05which lasted all the way until the end,
01:07when he made the choice to do voluntary assisted dying.
01:11Both he and his family are grateful he was given the option to go out on his own terms.
01:17He was calm, dignified as always, and somehow still making us laugh.
01:22He was conditioned to do a lot of the wrongdoing behind the death as always,
01:25and he'sòng haven't developed for anyone but hadn't developed so much
01:26what his means to do.
01:26But we did it to happen, he said,
01:27and he thought,
01:28when we suddenly felt pizz dinosaurs or object upon the death of death
01:28and at all they're not really coughing sounds and
01:29small bits, so that's how we needed it.
01:29and I thought that he wasn't used to.
01:33But did not make any problems,
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