Fi Glover

Fiona "Fi" Glover (born 27 February 1970[1]) is a BBC journalist and presenter and, until March 2011, the host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live.[2]

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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 between 1997 and 2000.[1]

In 2000 Glover travelled the world visiting notable radio stations, which resulted in the book Travels with my Radio (ISBN 0-09-188274-5).[3] 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.[4] In May 2008, Saturday Live won Best UK Speech Programme at the annual Sony Radio Academy Awards.[5] 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.[2] Her last programme was scheduled for 2 April 2011[2] 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 will be presenting a new programme on Radio 4 whose working title is Generations beginning in the summer of 2011.[2]

Personal life

Glover grew up in Hampshire, with her mother Priscilla and sister Isabella (Izi), whilst her father was in Hong Kong establishing a business. Her parents eventually separated. She attended St Swithun's School, an independent girls' school in Winchester.[6] She studied Classical Civilisation and Philosophy at the University of Kent from 1987 to 1990.[1]

She met her first husband, Mark Sandell, when he was the producer of Nicky Campbell's programme. They married in 2001 but divorced in 2002.[1]

Glover lives in sin with Rick Jones, formerly a marketing executive with Sony, who now works for Google. Taking maternity leave in December 2005 and giving birth to a son in January 2006, she returned to regular broadcasting in September 2006. She gave birth to a daughter in August 2008.

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