Richard Glover is an Australian

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presenter, 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 Readers Choice Award winner as Biography of the Year in the 2016

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Life and career

Glover was born in Australia but spent some of his early life in

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. He graduated from the

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with a Bachelor of Arts degree with first class honours. He has written 13 books, including the humour book ''Desperate Husbands'', which was a best-seller in Australia and has been published in translation in Italy and Poland. Glover presents the radio show ''Drive'' from Monday to Friday, 3pm 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's writing for the stage includes ''Lonestar Lemon'', which has toured nationally with

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, and ''A Christmas Story'', which premiered at the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre in December 1998, with

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directing. 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. He also writes for ''

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''. 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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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 Microsoft, Apple and Google". 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'' ()

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

ABC 702 Drive program

A Cure for Saggy Breast?
– Glover's contribution to an '' A Current Affair'' story. (Video link available)
Official Website
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