With special guest:
- Richard Glover
Our guest today is famous.
Richard Glover is the host of the top rating Drive show on 702 ABC Sydney, and the weekly podcast of Thank God It’s Friday. He is the author of twelve books including the bestseller In Bed with Jocasta. His new book Flesh Wounds is in a similar humorous vein but the big difference this time is that it is the real story of his unusual, to say the least, upbringing.
We got Richard on the other side of the microphone from his usual radio role to explore with us his journey from being one of the first artificially inseminated babies in Australia. This was followed by a childhood in Papua-New Guinea and then on to maintaining a relationship with a mother who lived in a fantasy world and a father who let the real world get on top of him.
The book is described by one reviewer as “sad, funny, revealing, optimistic and hopeful”. This is a clear indication that we can all relate to at least some of Richard’s story, perhaps to our surprise.
Richard tells us about a favourite game for people sitting around a table. This is to discover who at the table has the weirdest parents. Richard tells us the story of one of his friends who initially said he could not participate because his parents were very normal, unexciting, oh unless you mean….
It would be hard to top some of the weird stories we hear about in this entertaining conversation with a man who usually asks the questions and who is blessed with a natural and highly developed sense of humour.
Richard Glover
Richard Glover is something of an institution among Sydney radio listeners who for many years have been informed and entertained every afternoon by his top rating Drive show on 702 ABC Sydney. On Fridays this becomes the Thank God It’s Friday show and blog. On Saturdays Richard has a regular column for the Sydney Morning Herald and has now written twelve books including the best sellers In Bed with Jocasta, The Dag’s Dictionary and Desperate Husbands. In other achievements he was appointed state ambassador for the National Year of Reading in 2012 and in 2011 he and Peter FitzSimons achieved a world record supervised by the Guinness Book of records for the world’s longest radio interview.
Song selection by our guest: In the Ghetto by Elvis Presley