Education
University of Kent.
University of Kent.
In 1993, Glover started her British Broadcasting Corporation career as a filing clerk on various local radio stations including British Broadcasting Corporation Somerset Sound, Humberside, Northampton and GLR. In 1996, she joined British Broadcasting Corporation 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: I am an Oil Tanker ().
The title reflected the hazards of live broadcasting with Dickie Arbiter"s opening statement I am an oil tanker, Dickie Arbiter is on fire in the Gulf.
The radio stations documented in the book include a temporary British Broadcasting Corporation station for the Euro 2000 football tournament, run from a cafe in Belgium, an English-language station in Geneva, a station run by Irish United Nations 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 British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4"s Saturday Live from its inception in 2007 until 2011. 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 returned to Radio 4 with The Listening Project, a joint initiative by the British Library and British Broadcasting Corporation, which started on 29 March 2012, aiming "to capture the nation in conversation".