Career
In 1993, Glover started her BBC career as a filing clerk on various local radio stations including BBC Somerset Sound, Humberside, Northampton and GLR. She won a silver Sony Award for her GLR breakfast show presented with Gideon Coe. In 1996, she joined BBC Radio Five Live, where she spent seven years as a key broadcaster in news and political coverage. She also presented Travel Show on BBC2 from 1997 to 2000.
In 2000, Glover travelled the world visiting notable radio stations, which resulted in the book Travels with my Radio (ISBN 0-09-188274-5). The radio stations documented in the book include a temporary BBC station for the Euro 2000 football tournament, run from a cafe in Belgium, an English-language station in Geneva, a station run by Irish UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon, and Montserrat Radio which broadcast throughout the 1996 Soufrière Hills volcano eruption.
In 2004, Glover took over from Eddie Mair as host of Sunday morning news analysis programme Broadcasting House.
Following a period of maternity leave, she became the host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live from its inception in 2007 until 2011. In May 2008, Saturday Live won Best UK Speech Programme at the annual Sony Radio Academy Awards. In a press release of 17 March 2011, it was announced that Glover had decided to leave Saturday Live and that her replacement host would be Richard Coles. Her last programme was scheduled for 2 April 2011 but as she lost her voice owing to a throat infection on that day, her actual last programme was on 19 March 2011 (Suzy Klein presented the programme on 26 March 2011).
Glover is be presenting a three year series on Radio 4 Generations Apart beginning in the autumn of 2011.
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