Host of ABC Sydney Drive, Friday TGIF wanted to highlight ‘joy in the everyday’ rather than reporting on ‘terrible things’
Host of ABC Sydney Drive, Friday TGIF wanted to highlight ‘joy in the everyday’ rather than report on ‘terrible things’In the competitive world of talk radio Richard Glover is the great survivor who stayed on top and chose the manner of his exit after almost three decades on ABC radio.
A live audience made up of family, Drive regular guests and loyal listeners crammed into a TV studio in Ultimo to watch the final TGIF, a signature Friday show Glover created in 1998 to bring the magic of variety to radio.“Are you going to laugh at any old rubbish?” Glover asked the studio audience in the countdown to TGIF during the news headlines.
After Glover’s signature News from Nowhere segment, which this week celebrated being a grandparent, Dean, who has been part of TGIF forever, roasted Glover’s corny style. “And yet, even within that generational love letter, you still had to reference Proust, you elite literary wanker.”
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