Remembering Mark Colvin

For the past 20 years, this program has been opened by a voice familiar to you all. Mark Colvin, a towering figure here at the ABC, a commanding intellect, a mentor to so many and in sickness he had an uncommon resilience. He'd been in hospital in Sydney for several weeks but today died peacefully surrounded by his family. Mark started with the ABC in 1974 and filed on many of the history-making moments of the last half century from the Iranian revolution to the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the genocide in Rwanda and the sacking of the Whitlam government.