1. Fiona Susannah Grace "Fi" Glover was born on 27 February 1969 and is a British journalist and presenter who currently hosts a two hour show for Times Radio and the Off Air podcast, for The Times.
22 Facts About Fi Glover
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Fi Glover worked at BBC Radio 5 Live for seven years, presenting Sunday Service, with Charlie Whelan and Andrew Pierce, Late Night Live, the Afternoon Show and the mid-morning phone-in programme.
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Fi Glover's television presenting roles include hosting BBC One's reality history show; 24 Hours in the Past, in 2014.
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Fi Glover has made films for Newsnight, and was the presenter of the BBC Two Travel Show from 1997 to 2000.
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In 1993, Fi Glover began her BBC career as a filing clerk on various local radio stations including BBC Somerset Sound, Humberside and Northampton.
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Fi Glover joined GLR in London, as a junior reporter and went on to present the Breakfast Show with Gideon Coe three years later, winning a silver Sony Award in 1995.
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In 2004, Fi Glover took over from Eddie Mair as host of Sunday morning news analysis programme Broadcasting House, winning a Silver Sony Award in the same year.
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Fi Glover became the host of BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live from its inception in 2006 until 2011.
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Fi Glover returned to BBC Radio 4 with The Listening Project, a joint initiative by the British Library and the BBC, which started on 29 March 2012, aiming "to capture the nation in conversation".
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In 2015 and Fi Glover presented two series of Shared Experience on Radio Four, a programme which interviews people who have had similar, and frequently traumatic, experiences, such as being bullied at school, coping with addiction or being held hostage.
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Fi Glover has made a series of occasional documentaries on different aspects of parenting, for BBC Radio 4 with producer Sarah Cuddon: Listen Without Mother in July 2014, The Great Egg Freeze July 2014, The Expressing Room March 2018 and Dads and The Delivery Room in December 2019.
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In September 2022, it was announced that Fi Glover would join Times Radio to host a daily, two-hour show with Jane Garvey.
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Between 1997 and 2000 Fi Glover presented The Travel Show on BBC Two.
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Fi Glover has presented several editions of Newsnight and two films for the programme in 2013; The Rise of Digital Feminism, and Legal Highs.
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Fi Glover has written a weekly column for Waitrose Weekend since 2012.
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Fi Glover was the Chair of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2009 and is a Founder of Sound Women, a lobby group set up to campaign for parity in the broadcasting industry.
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Fi Glover is the patron of Adfam, a national charity working to improve life for families affected by drugs or alcohol.
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Fi Glover was born in Slough, Berkshire, but grew up in Hampshire, with her mother Priscilla and sister Isabella, while her father was in Hong Kong establishing a business.
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Fi Glover attended St Swithun's School, an independent girls' school in Winchester.
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Fi Glover studied classical civilisation and philosophy at the University of Kent from 1987 to 1990.
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Fi Glover was briefly married to Mark Sandell, then a producer at BBC Five Live.
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Fi Glover married Rick Jones, a Google executive, in April 2014.