Holly Wainwright

will get you one way or another.

And whether or not Blake Lively is particularly likeable is always nice to everybody, blah, blah, blah.

Isn't the point?

He's clearly just an incredibly skilled...

communicator.

I mean, I would be lying if I said I listened to that show, but anyone who knows how radio works, how the ABC works, so many people I know who know him, he was just clearly exceptionally good at what he did and very loved.

So seeing the footage of the living... So his reference at the end there was due to the fact that he ultimately chose the time he was going to die, right?

This episode of Australian Story is really recommended viewing.

I think whether you know who James Valentine is or not, in a world where we hate to talk about death and yet it touches everybody, obviously.

I mean, it's a ridiculous thing to say.

But it does touch everybody.

I lost a friend to this same cancer when he was only 46.

Like all cancers, it's cruel.

And the idea that we're also... We don't like talking about illness.

We don't like talking about death.

And seeing somebody such a skilled communicator like James Valentine in this episode talking about...

why he wanted to do the things he did.

And they document the year, so him talking about how it very much clarified for him that he loved his work, so he didn't want to stop working.

He loved playing his saxophone, so he wanted to try and avoid procedures that were going to stop him from doing that.

That he really wanted to work, play, and be with his family, and those were the things he wanted to spend his last year doing.