old captain mission enjoys the radio as much as a good book and for the last 30 years i have listened to one broadcaster in particular. his soft spoken ego-less personality moves through the insomniac night times of the post midnight people tuning in, he has a bunch of followers from around the world, some families pass him on to their children like some treasured heirloom, me i just listen in. 
on my arrival to australia 30 years ago, jet lagged and dazed and confused i lay awake in the early morning 3am zone and tuned in the radio trying not to disturb a sleeping wife and first heard the voice of brian wilshire as he spoke of the secret machinations of global governments, agenda 21 and the codex, about the manipulation of information, the tweaking of media, the left wing morphing into the right, it was as if the curtain had been unveiled and i was seeing that the wizards that run the world were nothing more than puppets on strings. brian exposed banking, the mass surveillance of populations, he was the first man to talk openly about echelon and the five eyes, he even had people working on the project phoning in autonomously, guests with blueprints of the st. lenoards structure which looked like a telstra building but was as equally deep underground as it was towering over the north sydney skylines, many times his broadcasts were pulled, dead air. he often knew this would happen especially when he revealed how the banks worked, the nature of debt and i vividly recall one night he interviewed a farmer from victoria whom had written a book on how to beat the banks through the courts when they come to take the farm away. now it's common knowledge that the money never existed in the first place but back in the pre internet day brian was the internet. they took him off air but his followers demanded him back, the abc hated him, the mainstream feared him, the government didn't know what to do with him, especially when he self published his book, 'the fine print'  it was a best seller beating bryce courtney's power of one in book sales. yeah brian was a champion, and still is. i learnt more from his shows than i ever did from any newspaper. 
so it was sad, very sad to hear his last show last night and all the hundreds of people ringing him up to pay tribute. i sent him an e mail but listened in anyway. he's a legend and irreplaceable and i'm going to miss him and his wisdom.