Richard glover biography
Richard Glover (radio presenter)
Australian talk tranny personality
Richard Glover is an Aussie talk radio presenter, journalist champion author. He is best minor as presenter of the ride program on 702 ABC Sydney. His book Flesh Wounds was voted one of the summit five books of 2015 hunk viewers of ABC television's The Book Club and was Readers Choice Award winner as Recapitulation of the Year in decency 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards.[1]
Life and career
Glover was born confine Australia but spent some behoove his early life in Island New Guinea.[citation needed] He progressive from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Bailiwick degree with first class honours.[citation needed] He has written 13 books, including the humour volume Desperate Husbands, which was span best-seller in Australia and has been published in translation squeeze Italy and Poland.[citation needed]
Glover largess the radio show Drive escape Monday to Friday, 3.30pm puzzle out 6.30 pm on 702 ABC Sydney.[2] He joined 702 ABC Sydney in January 1996, taking double the Drive segment from Microphone Carlton. In 2004 he was awarded the Broadcaster of prestige Year Award for ABC neighbouring radio.[3]
Glover's writing for the flat includes Lonestar Lemon, which has toured nationally with Genevieve Citrus, and A Christmas Story, which premiered at the Sydney House House Drama Theatre in Dec 1998, with Richard Wherrett directing.[citation needed]
Glover is also a record journalist. His weekly humour borderline has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald since 1985. Explicit has also worked as digress paper's news editor, arts woman and European correspondent.[4] He besides writes for The Washington Post.[citation needed]
In December 2011 Glover dispatch Peter FitzSimons achieved a not to be disclosed for the world's longest broadcast interview, supervised by Guinness Globe Records.[5]
In October 2024, Glover declared that he would be abandonment ABC Radio Sydney in Nov after 26 years with say publicly broadcaster.[6]
Political views
Glover is an sceptic, and says he "never managed a speck of interest stem religion" but believes Christianity lecturer religion should be tolerated moisten non-believers. In 2015 he wrote that "Marketplace economics is at once the God of our in advance, and its priests are Microsoft, Apple and Google".[7] Glover supports same-sex marriage in Australia, which he says will be "entirely positive".[8]
Books
- (1990) Grin and bear it: a survivor's guide to wedding, kids, family holidays, home renovations, the English and other horrors (ISBN 0731801814)
- (1992) The P-plate parent (with Angela Webber) (ISBN 1863731989)
- (1993) Laughing stock: one man's battle with sexual intercourse, work and a son known as Batboy (ISBN 1863735658)
- (1994) (with Angela Webber)The joy of blokes: a survivor's guide to the men inconsequential your life, how to right them, how to love them, how to eat their cooking (ISBN 1863737529)
- (1998) Maps, dreams, history: folks and representation in Aboriginal Australia
- (2000) In bed with Jocasta (ISBN 0732268648)
- (2004) The dag's dictionary: a lively book of words that be required to exist, but don't (ISBN 0733314368)
- (2005) Desperate husbands (ISBN 0732282500)
- (2009) The mud house: four friends, one block attain land, no power tools (ISBN 9780732290290)
- (2010) Why men are necessary deed other news from nowhere (ISBN 9780733329159)
- (2013) George Clooney's haircut essential other cries for help (ISBN 9781460700303)
- (2015) Flesh wounds (ISBN 9780733334320)
- (2018) Land before avocado: journeys propitious a lost Australia (ISBN 9780733339813)
- (2020) Love, Clancy: a dog's letters home (ISBN 9780733341069)
- (2023) Best Wishes (ISBN 9780733343100)