John Laws was above all things a performer — and a highly skilled one at that.

In 2012, Laws — who died on the weekend aged 90 — agreed to join me on the ABC's 7.30 program for an interview to discuss outrageous remarks made by another powerful radio announcer, Alan Jones, regarding the then prime minister, Julia Gillard.

During the second half of the 1980s, the 1990s and most of the first decade of the 2000s, Alan Jones and John Laws were the dual titans of AM talkback radio in Australia.

There was plenty of rivalry between them and little love lost.

So when Jones landed at the centre of a national scandal after he told a Young Liberals dinner that John Gillard had "died of shame" because of his daughter's "lies", Laws was happy to comment.

Laws agreed to the interview, but he didn

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