Richard Glover is an Australian journalist and author. He is best known as presenter of the drive program on

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. His book ''Flesh Wounds'' was voted one of the top five books of 2015 by viewers of ABC television's ''

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'' and was

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winner as Biography of the Year in the 2016

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Education

Glover has a Bachelor of Arts from

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Career

Glover used to present the radio show ''Drive'' from Monday to Friday, 3.30pm to 6.30 pm on

. He joined 702 ABC Sydney in January 1996, taking over the Drive segment from

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. In 2004 he was awarded the Broadcaster of the Year Award for ABC local radio. Glover is also a newspaper journalist. His weekly humour column has appeared in ''

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'' since 1985. He has also worked as that paper's news editor, arts editor and European correspondent. In December 2011, Glover and

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achieved a record for the world's longest radio interview, supervised by

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. In October 2024, Glover announced that he would be leaving

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in November after 26 years with the broadcaster. Australian Prime Minister

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called Glover on his final show to congratulate him and said "As an interviewer you have incredible skill".

Political views

Glover is an atheist, and says he "never managed a speck of interest in religion" but believes Christianity and religion should be tolerated by non-believers. In 2015, he wrote that "Marketplace economics is now the God of our time, and its priests are

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and

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". Glover supports same-sex marriage in Australia, which he says will be "entirely positive".

Books

* (1990) ''Grin and bear it: a survivor's guide to marriage, kids, family holidays, home renovations, the English and other horrors'' () * (1992) ''The P-plate parent'' (with Angela Webber) () * (1993) ''Laughing stock: one man's battle with sex, work and a son called Batboy'' () * (1994) (with Angela Webber)''The joy of blokes: a survivor's guide to the men in your life, how to meet them, how to love them, how to eat their cooking'' () * (1998) ''Maps, dreams, history: race and representation in Aboriginal Australia'' * (2000) ''In bed with Jocasta'' () * (2004) ''The dag's dictionary: a humorous book of words that should exist, but don't'' () * (2005) ''Desperate husbands'' () * (2009) ''The mud house: four friends, one block of land, no power tools'' () * (2010) ''Why men are necessary and other news from nowhere '' () * (2013) ''George Clooney's haircut and other cries for help '' () * (2015) ''Flesh wounds '' () * (2018) ''Land before avocado: journeys in a lost Australia'' () * (2020) ''Love, Clancy: a dog's letters home'' () * (2023) ''Best Wishes'' ()

Children's books

* (2003) ''The dirt experiment'' () * (2007) ''The joke trap'' ( * (2011) ''The no-minute noodler: dag's dictionary for kids (e-book)'' (

References

External links

Sydney Morning Herald column

A Cure for Saggy Breast?
– Glover's contribution to an ''

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'' story. (Video link available)
Official Website
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