Fi Glover Biography
Fi Glover is a British journalist and presenter who presently conducts a two-hour show on Times Radio and the Off Air podcast for The Times. Glover spent nearly thirty years with the BBC until joining The Times in October 2022, most notably presenting the Fortunately podcast with Jane Garvey, The Listening Project for BBC Radio 4, and My Perfect Country for the BBC World Service.
How old is Fi Glover? – Age
She is 55 years old as of February 27 2024. She was born in 1969 in Slough, United Kingdom. Her real name is Fiona Susannah Grace “Fi” Glover.
Fi Glover Family – Education
Glover was born in Slough, Berkshire, but raised in Hampshire with her mother, Priscilla (Cilla), and sister, Isabella (Izi), while her father was in Hong Kong setting up a business. Her parents eventually separated. Her mother’s father was Chassar Moir, an obstetrics professor who is credited with saving the lives of many women around the world. She went to St Swithun’s School, an independent girls’ school in Winchester. She studied classical civilization and philosophy at the University of Kent from 1987 to 1990.
Fi Glover Husband – Children
Glover was once married to Mark Sandell, a producer at BBC Five Live. Glover married Rick Jones, an executive at Google, in April 2014. They have two children. The pair separated in 2017.
Fi Glover Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of £40,000.
Fi Glover Books
Glover traveled the world in 2000, visiting noteworthy radio stations and writing the book Travels with My Radio: I Am an Oil Tanker. The title represented the dangers of live broadcasting, with Dickie Arbiter’s opening words “I am an oil tanker, Dickie Arbiter is on fire in the Gulf.”
The book documents radio stations such as a temporary BBC station for the Euro 2000 football tournament, which was run from a café 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. Glover has contributed a weekly column to Waitrose Weekend since 2012. It goes online in 2020. Glover and Fortunately co-host Jane Garvey wrote the book Did I Say That Out Loud?: Notes on the Chuff of Life, which was published in September 2021.
Fi Glover The Travel Show
Between 1997 and 2000, Glover hosted The Travel Show on BBC Two. In 2012, she took part in the BBC’s Sport Relief Does Bake Off, and in 2015, she hosted BBC One’s six-part reality history show, 24 Hours in the Past, in which celebrities travel back in time to try living like Victorians.
Glover has also hosted many editions of Newsnight and produced two films for the show in 2013: The Rise of Digital Feminism and Legal Highs.
Fi Glover Career
In 1993, Glover started her BBC profession as a documenting representative on different neighborhood radio broadcasts including BBC Somerset Sound, Humberside and Northampton. She joined GLR in London, as a lesser correspondent and proceeded to introduce the Morning meal Show with Gideon Coe three years after the fact, winning a silver Sony Grant in 1995. In 1996, she moved to BBC Radio 5 Live, where she burned through seven years as a critical telecaster in news and political inclusion, introducing shows, for example, Sunday Administration, with Charlie Whelan and Andrew Pierce, Late Night Live, the Midday Show and the early in the day telephone in program.
In 2004, Glover took over from Eddie Mair as host of Sunday morning news examination program Broadcasting House, winning a Silver Sony Grant around the same time. She turned into the host of BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live from its beginning in 2006 until 2011. In May 2008, Saturday Live won Best UK Discourse Program at the Sony Grants. In 2010 Radio Times perusers casted a ballot Glover ninth Most Impressive Voice on Radio.
Glover got back to BBC Radio 4 with The Listening Venture, a joint drive by the English Library and the BBC, what began on 29 Walk 2012, pointing “to catch the country in discussion”. In 2013 The Listening Task won a Bronze Sony Grant in the Best Discourse Program classification. In 2014 she was made an Individual of the Radio Foundation.
In 2015 and Glover introduced two series of Shared Insight on Radio Four, a program which meetings individuals who have had comparative, and habitually horrible, encounters, for example, being harassed at school, adapting to dependence or being kept prisoner. In Pre-winter 2015, she sent off My Ideal Country on the BBC World Help, an ongoing undertakings show made in organization with the UCL Establishment for Worldwide Flourishing. Co-gave Martha Path Fox and Henrietta Moore, it turned into the very first public broadcast to be recorded during a sitting meeting of the UN. It opened the UN ECOSOC meeting of 2016 in New York City at the greeting of the UN Secretary General. My Ideal Nation ran for 3 series and was trailed by two series of My Ideal City, gave Ellie Cosgrave and Greg Clark.
During 2015 and 2016 Glover likewise facilitated Two Spaces for BBC Radio 4, a conversation program utilizing the thought of the center gathering. It places two distinct gatherings in discrete rooms to talk about a similar theme for example Brexit or movement and afterward unites them to check whether they have changed their positions.
On 29 Walk 2017, Glover, along with telecaster Jane Garvey began a week after week webcast series on BBC Radio 4, Luckily: A forthright look in the background with telecasters Jane Garvey and Fi Glover as visitors from Radio, television and podcasting share stories they presumably shouldn’t. Luckily, which has been downloaded 4.5 multiple times, is right now No.5 in the BBC’s most famous digital recordings and has been No.1 in the Apple webcast outlines.
From Jan 2021, it will be communicated in a standard opening on BBC Radio 4. As well as winning silver at the 2017 English Digital recording grants, Luckily likewise won Most entertaining Show at the 2018 ARIAS, and Bronze At the center of attention Grant at the English Webcast Grants 2019. Visitors on the show incorporate Ian Wright, Anne Tyler, Monty Wear, Ruth Jones, Will Youthful, Sara Cox, Claudia Winkleman, Miriam Margolyes, Will Self, Jeremy Plant, Ken Bruce, Tracey Thistle, Emily Maitlis, and Kirsty Wark.
In April 2017, Glover sent off another BBC Radio Four series, Glass Half Full, leading discussions among confident people and worry warts on central points of contention, for example, medical care, populace development and orientation balance. Glover has likewise made a progression of periodic narratives on various parts of nurturing, for BBC Radio 4 with maker Sarah Cuddon: Tune in Without Mother in July 2014, The Incomparable Egg Freeze July 2014, The Communicating Room Walk 2018 and Fathers and The Conveyance Room in December 2019.
In September 2022, it was declared that Glover would join Times Radio to have an everyday, two-hour show with Jane Garvey. The pair likewise have an everyday digital broadcast for the Times: Off Air.