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  Glover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glover is a town in Orleans County, Vermont.
Glover's Rock is the rock George Washington and John Glover stood on during the Battle of Pell's Point in the American Revolutionary War.
Glover is a word used to refer to a maker of gloves.
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 Fi Glover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fi Glover, (born February 27th) is a BBC journalist and presenter.
Glover started her BBC career in 1993 as a reporter on various local radio stations including BBC Somerset Sound, Humberside, Northampton and GLR.
When she left BBC Radio Five Live Fi was said to be working on her second book.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fi_Glover   (286 words)

  
 BBC - Press Office - Fi Glover sabbatical
BBC Radio Five Live broadcaster Fi Glover, who has been with the station since 1997 and currently hosts the mid morning phone in programme, is to leave her permanent slot on the station in July to take a sabbatical from the BBC.
Fi said: "Whilst I am sad to be leaving Radio Five Live after six years, as I've had a great time here, I was really flattered to be asked to write another book.
Fi started her BBC career as a trainee reporter in 1993 and worked widely in local radio including BBC Somerset Sound, and BBC Radios Humberside and Northampton.
www.bbc.co.uk /pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2003/05_may/30/fi_glover.shtml   (368 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: I Am an Oil Tanker: Travels with My Radio: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Glover's writing style is consistent with the tone of her broadcasting.
Glover's style is easy to read and very inticing to the reader whilst also giving the reader the feeling that they are somehow her companion on such adventures, trotting a little way behind her like a caddie, trying desperatly to walk with such inspiring talent instead of in awe of it.
It is Glover's obsession with radio in all its forms which prompted her to write this entertaining travelogue-cum-homage to radio.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0091877865   (1788 words)

  
 I am an oil tanker
Fi Glover is an acclaimed BBC Radio Five Live broadcaster who began her career at the BBC's smallest local station Somerset Sound, later worked for GLR, flirted with television in The Travel Show and now hosts Five Live's late show.
Glover is a self-confessed radio anorak whose first priority, when checking into any hotel room anywhere is to tune in the bedside radio to whatever local station takes her fancy.
Fi Glover has a wonderful writing style in which she holds little of herself back.
www.transdiffusion.org /rmc/features/glover.asp   (650 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Radio review
One of the best bits of radio news of late, emerging from the announcement of a Radio Five Live reshuffle, is the forthcoming elevation of Fi Glover from her late-night show to the network's mid-morning slot, currently presented by Nicky Campbell.
An antique and bewildered female delegate agreed to read out a message promoting the show ("blue sky, blue sea, blue rinse - Fi and Crofty at Bournemouth on Five Live", pronouncing Fi as Fy), and then it was back to the late-night alleged entertainment at the conference.
Fi Glover has a winningly disdainful "hmmmm" for such horrors; look out for it in the new year.
www.guardian.co.uk /tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,809701,00.html   (413 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Travels with My Radio: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
One cannot fail to see Glover in some parts of the book as a tour guide with the golden ticket which means she can take her group where the other guides can't or won't.
Glover is pushing travel writing into a similar new dawn to Echo's in the world of fiction and criticism.
Glover's literary voice is as friendly and informative as her spoken voice but be warned.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0091882745   (1035 words)

  
 Vivienne Clore represents Fi Glover
By this time - 1999 - Fi was back at Five Live - presenting their once a week political hit "Sunday Service", she also presented the Afternoon Show and the award winning late night Fi Glover show, before coming to rest for six months in the chair of the mid morning phone in show.
Fi has voiced up a fair few documentaries for ITV 1, Channel 4 and the BBC, including BBC 2's major series "Spend Spend Spend", "Diet Junkies" and "Food Junkies".
Fi has been guest panelist on The News Quiz for Radio 4 and Have I Got News For You fo BBC as well as host of the First Women awards.
www.vivienneclore.com /articles/Fi_399358_77.html   (333 words)

  
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Fi has worked on the Travel Show, Holiday programme and on GLR radio station.
Fi is married Mark Sandell, the producer of the Nicky Campbell Show and Sunday 6-0-6.
Fi has also gone into print with her book on radio stations that she has visited by hook or by expense account entitled, "I Am An Oil Tanker".
web.ukonline.co.uk /5livefan/presenters/figlover.htm   (175 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Fi Glover   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It's a once in a lifetime opportunity." (Fi Glover, BBC Press office) BBC Radio Five Live is the BBCs radio service providing live BBC News, phone-ins, and sports commentaries.
Fi used to present the early morning breakfast programme on weekdays on GLR (Greater London Radio), but mysteriously stopped doing that at around about the same time that she started appearing on the TV.
Fi also appeared near the back of the issue of Time Out in mid-March 1996, the one with Toy Story on the front.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fi_Glover   (1035 words)

  
 CD Baby: MARVIN GLOVER: Muse
Glover attended college before entering the flight industry, where on the first day of orientation, he met drummer Dale Carlson and formed a band.
Glover released a four-song EP, Holiday Light, in the winter of 2002 and immediately began writing for his second solo release.
Recorded in Seattle over the calendar year of 2004, Muse showcases the creative talents of Glover, as singer, arranger and producer with his style of soulful funk and groove rock that attracts listeners of all musical tastes and generations.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/marving3   (655 words)

  
 I Am an Oil Tanker Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Fi Glover set off in January 2000 to travel the world in search of truly unique radio stations.
Fi Glover, a dj on BBC in England, finds herself between radio gigs for a few months, and decides to see what radio is like in other countries.
Fi Glover is an acclaimed BBC Radio Five Live broadcaster who began her career at the BBC's smallest local station Somerset Sound, later worked for GLR in London, flirted with television in BBC2's The Travel Show and now hosts BBC Radio Five Live's late show.
www.elipsiselectronics.com /section/Books/Author/Fi+Glover   (185 words)

  
 House of Commons - Public Administration - Minutes of Evidence
Fi, you are a bit late for us in terms of your activities on a daily basis but we know all about you and we are most interested in your flirtation with the public appointments system, which we are looking at.
(Ms Glover) I do a weekday, late night programme on BBC Radio Five Live, which I am sure you are all very familiar with; it is a marvellous programme and everybody should listen.
I just wonder if there is out there a latent pool of talent which is never going to come forward no matter how open you make the system, no matter how many radio programmes there are about it; that at the end of the day people just like to be asked.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmpubadm/686/2042511.htm   (1872 words)

  
 Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
Danny Glover, star of SCI FI Channel's upcoming original miniseries Earthsea, told SCI FI Wire that he sought to ground his character, the master wizard Ogion, in the real world.
Glover co-stars with Shawn Ashmore (X-Men) and Kristin Kreuk (Smallville) in the miniseries, based on the first two of Ursula K. Le Guin's trilogy of fantasy novels.
Though new to the genre of fantasy, veteran actor Glover said that he didn't find it difficult to find his way into the story.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-08/03/11.30.sfc   (347 words)

  
 Digital Spy Forums - Fi Glover
Mark, Fi's book was the work of a depressed woman trying to work her problems out after a colleague had just walked off with her man.
I think she's sadly missed on 5 live and when she was there she was one of the better presenters on the station and deserves to be on Radio 4.
EM would leave a point hanging with a sarcastic line and let the listener join the dots on the subtext he was wanting to pass, but 'Fi' just rams home what she is trying to telegraph with cringe worthy bluntness.
forum.digitalspy.co.uk /board/showthread.php?t=303924   (1398 words)

  
 BBC - Radio 4 - Presenter - Fi Glover
Fi Glover started her journalist career at the BBC as a filing clerk in the Radio Research Library before getting a place on the local radio reporters' training scheme.
This took her to the far flung haunts of Somerset, Humberside and Northampton before she returned to her native(ish) London to work for GLR.
At the beginning of this year she transferred to big school in the form of Radio 4, where she now presents Broadcasting House on Sunday mornings.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/presenters/fi_glover.shtml   (88 words)

  
 In the Media
On the eve of September 11, I was asked to participate on a BBC radio program.
Also on the show were Bianca Jagger, the former rock star's wife now described as an "activist," and Terry Waite, the former Anglican Church envoy who was held captive by terrorists in Beirut from 1987 to 1991.The interviewer, Fi Glover, began by asking Mrs.
Glover asked: Is it not troubling that U.S. authorities are denying the rights of the people being detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?
www.defenddemocracy.org /in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=155716   (738 words)

  
 SCIFI.COM: John Glover, December 10, 1999
That means you'll be sending your questions for John Glover to me, Moderator, as private messages -- and I'll add them to the queue.
JohnGlover: GA Moderator: For late-comers: our guest this afternoon is actor John Glover who plays the silver-tongued Devil on the supernatural cop series Brimstone -- which you can catch tonight on The Sci-Fi Channel, starting at 7pmET.
Glover - how many of the Devil's practical jokes did you think of by yourself, ie.
www.scifi.com /transcripts/1999/JohnGlover.html   (2557 words)

  
 Random House : Author Details for Fi Glover
Fi Glover is an acclaimed BBC Radio Five Live broadcaster.
During 2000, Fi was nominated for 2 Sony Awards, one for entertainment and one for news.
In 1996, Fi picked up the Silver Sony Award for GLR Breakfast Show.
www.randomhouse.co.uk /catalog/author.htm?authorID=3891   (80 words)

  
 SCI FI WIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Craig Kilborn is in final talks and Danny Glover is set to join the cast of Disney's upcoming remake of The Shaggy Dog, which Brian Robbins is directing, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Tim Allen stars as a man who occasionally changes into a sheepdog in the movie, which is scheduled to head into production Nov. 14, the trade paper reported.
Glover (SCI FI Channel's upcoming original miniseries Earthsea) will play Allen's boss, a district attorney.
www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-handheld.html?2004-11/12/10.00.film   (105 words)

  
 I Am An Oil Tanker by Fi Glover
Fi Glover is currently the host of BBC Radio Five Live's subversive Sunday Service, and BBC 2's somewhat less subversive Travel Show.
Fi Glover is a bit of a traveller.
In January 2000 she set off on a journey which took her around the world, via many radio stations and some very strange communities.
www.randomhouse.co.uk /minisites/oiltanker   (157 words)

  
 New Statesman - Diary - Fi Glover
He was somewhat out of sorts at having to wear a badge that said "Guest of Fi Glover"- for the whole evening.
We were then treated to a tour of the state apartments and a sit-down dinner, where the menu informed us we were eating a healthy array of food, including something that had been described as "nature's Botox" - possibly the enormous fruit salad.
By Wednesday, it was time to leave London and embark on a journey, to be filed in the box marked "Great Moments in History Spent in a Hotel Room".
www.newstatesman.com /200507110002   (830 words)

  
 New Statesman: Sir Paul McCartney should teach his new wife, Heather, better manners - Column   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Shaken by the moment of social awkwardness, I dived for the champagne and finished two glasses before finally approaching Radio 5 Live's Fi Glover, safe in the knowledge that we had definitely met before.
Chatting to Fi and then to Sue Carroll of the Mirror I saw that they both (rightly) stood facing the room.
As we chatted, Sue and Fi were able to peer gracefully over my shoulder at Paul Young and Richard Madeley while pretending politely to have a conversation.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4628_132/ai_99121727   (788 words)

  
 House of Commons - Public Administration - Minutes of Evidence
If there were a National Cricket Council and you thought, "That's for me" and you read up about it and thought, "I could do this", you could have written in saying, "I am particularly interested in the National Cricket Council.
(Ms Glover) If you log on and you reply in that way, you are absolutely right, you should be able immediately to get on to lots of different websites, so you can surf around and see what some of these bodies do.
If they then have a section where you can send them more information about yourself, it seems to be a perfect way of going a bit deeper; more joined-up.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200102/cmselect/cmpubadm/686/2042515.htm   (542 words)

  
 IGN: Glover
Interactive Studios reveals the sequel to Glover with first gameplay details.
Hasbro and Nintendo are teaming up to distribute Glover in Europe.
By continuing past this page, and by your continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
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 Book Reviews - Non-fiction
Travel writing is an underrated skill - one has to be a wonderfully descriptive writer without being bogged down in detail; one has to have something to say; and on top of that, one has to have had experiences worth writing about.
So Fi Glover has my unending admiration simply for trying it.
She is a clever and engaging broadcaster with a genuine feel for radio, and I have to say I approached this with a certain trepidation in case she couldn't carry it over to the page.
myweb.tiscali.co.uk /richard.watt/Reviews/Nonfiction.html   (537 words)

  
 Rory Gallagher Home Page
Roger Glover is a bass player that made the famous Mark II of Deep Purple (1969-1973) just what it is - famous!
With Glover, Deep Purple released these albums in the 70s: "In Rock" (1970, featuring "Child In Time" with Ian Gillan's loudest screaming vocals), "Fireball" (1971), "Machine Head" (1972, containing "Smoke on the Water" and "Highway Star") and "Who Do We Think We Are" (73).
Tensions within the group had forced Glover to leave the band in that year; he was replaced by ex-Trapeze Glenn Hughes.
www.hut.fi /~khagelbe/rory/discography/roger_glover.intro.html   (612 words)

  
 Broadcasting House (radio programme) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Broadcasting House began with Eddie Mair as presenter.
After a period with no regular presenter, Fi Glover has replaced him.
This page was last modified 01:19, 24 June 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broadcasting_House_%28radio_programme%29   (369 words)

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