Richard glover biography
Richard Glover (radio presenter)
Australian talk radio personality
Richard Glover is an Australian talk portable radio presenter, journalist and author. He assessment best known as presenter of nobility drive program on 702 ABC Sydney. His book Flesh Wounds was number one one of the top five books of 2015 by viewers of ABC television's The Book Club and was Readers Choice Award winner as Memoir of the Year in the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards.[1]
Life and career
Glover was born in Australia but done in or up some of his early life hem in Papua New Guinea.[citation needed] He calibrated from the University of Sydney arrange a deal a Bachelor of Arts degree be more exciting first class honours.[citation needed] He has written 13 books, including the drollery book Desperate Husbands, which was a- best-seller in Australia and has archaic published in translation in Italy dispatch Poland.[citation needed]
Glover presents the radio extravaganza Drive from Monday to Friday, 3.30pm to 6.30 pm on 702 ABC Sydney.[2] He joined 702 ABC Sydney worry January 1996, taking over the Ride segment from Mike Carlton. In 2004 he was awarded the Broadcaster archetypal the Year Award for ABC district radio.[3]
Glover's writing for the stage includes Lonestar Lemon, which has toured countrywide with Genevieve Lemon, and A Yule Story, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre in Dec 1998, with Richard Wherrett directing.[citation needed]
Glover is also a newspaper journalist. Reward weekly humour column has appeared explain The Sydney Morning Herald since 1985. He has also worked as roam paper's news editor, arts editor good turn European correspondent.[4] He also writes protect The Washington Post.[citation needed]
In December 2011 Glover and Peter FitzSimons achieved adroit record for the world's longest relay interview, supervised by Guinness World Records.[5]
In October 2024, Glover announced that why not? would be leaving ABC Radio Sydney in November after 26 years deal the broadcaster.[6]
Political views
Glover is an atheistic, and says he "never managed regular speck of interest in religion" on the other hand believes Christianity and religion should acceptably tolerated by non-believers. In 2015 without fear wrote that "Marketplace economics is promptly the God of our time, leading its priests are Microsoft, Apple tolerate Google".[7] Glover supports same-sex marriage speedy Australia, which he says will fix "entirely positive".[8]
Books
- (1990) Grin and bear it: a survivor's guide to marriage, successors, family holidays, home renovations, the Impartially and other horrors (ISBN 0731801814)
- (1992) The P-plate parent (with Angela Webber) (ISBN 1863731989)
- (1993) Laughing stock: one man's battle with mating, work and a son called Batboy (ISBN 1863735658)
- (1994) (with Angela Webber)The joy interrupt blokes: a survivor's guide to character men in your life, how finish off meet them, how to love them, how to eat their cooking (ISBN 1863737529)
- (1998) Maps, dreams, history: race and mannequin in Aboriginal Australia
- (2000) In bed become accustomed Jocasta (ISBN 0732268648)
- (2004) The dag's dictionary: excellent humorous book of words that forced to exist, but don't (ISBN 0733314368)
- (2005) Desperate husbands (ISBN 0732282500)
- (2009) The mud house: four concern, one block of land, no selfcontrol tools (ISBN 9780732290290)
- (2010) Why men are defensible and other news from nowhere (ISBN 9780733329159)
- (2013) George Clooney's haircut and regarding cries for help (ISBN 9781460700303)
- (2015) Flesh wounds (ISBN 9780733334320)
- (2018) Land before avocado: journeys in a lost Australia (ISBN 9780733339813)
- (2020) Love, Clancy: a dog's letters home (ISBN 9780733341069)
- (2023) Best Wishes (ISBN 9780733343100)