Richard Glover

Richard Glover is an Australian talk radio presenter, journalist and author.

He is best known as presenter of the drive program on 702 ABC Sydney.

His weekly humour column has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald since 1985.

He has also worked as that paper's news editor, arts editor and European correspondent.

He also writes for The Washington Post.

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

Glover's writing for the stage includes Lonestar Lemon, which has toured nationally with Genevieve Lemon, and A Christmas Story, which premiered at the Sydney Opera House Drama Theatre in December 1998, with Richard Wherrett directing.

Glover is also a newspaper journalist.

In 2004 he was awarded the Broadcaster of the Year Award for ABC local radio.

In December 2011 Glover and Peter FitzSimons achieved a record for the world's longest radio interview, supervised by Guinness World Records.

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.

His book Flesh Wounds was voted one of the top five books of 2015 by viewers of ABC television's The Book Club and was Readers Choice Award winner as Biography of the Year in the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards.

Glover was born in Australia but spent some of his early life in Papua New Guinea.

He graduated from the University of Sydney 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, 3.30pm to 6.30 pm on 702 ABC Sydney.

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".