Richard Glover
Richard Glover uses a weekly humour column to turn everyday experience and cultural change into entertainment for readers of The Age and its sister mastheads. He works as a journalist, author and broadcaster, moving between print and radio while keeping a consistent focus on storytelling that is funny, direct and grounded in lived experience. His pieces sit in the entertainment space but carry the weight of a long career in columns and talk radio, so his coverage leans more toward crafted essays than straight reporting.
Humour columns anchored in personal experience
Glover’s defining format is the humour column, which he has maintained for more than three decades across The Age and related publications. His pieces typically start from a personal moment, habit or frustration and build out into a short narrative that invites readers to recognise their own lives in his. In a recent column titled “Forget geography, these are the things I should’ve been taught 50 years ago”, he uses the contrast between a school subject and half a century of life experience to frame the practical lessons that matter in adulthood, keeping the tone light while the implications are serious.[anchor] That approach is consistent with his broader work, where small domestic or everyday details become the route into reflections on how people live, learn and cope. For a story, he responds best to material that can be translated into a specific, relatable situation rather than abstract themes, giving him something concrete to build a column around.
Generational change and a ‘lost’ Australia
Across his books and columns, Glover returns to the idea of a “lost” Australia and the strangeness of the late 1960s and 1970s, treating generational change as a rich source of humour and insight. One of his best-known works is described as “a journey into a lost Australia, the bizarre Australia of the late 60s and early 70s”, and that sensibility flows through pieces that compare how things were done then with how they are done now.
He often uses his own upbringing and family stories as the lens for these comparisons, turning personal history into material that can stand for a wider cohort. Within entertainment coverage, this gives him a distinctive angle: he is less interested in celebrity or new releases than in how culture has shifted over time and what that feels like from the inside.
Stories that tap into memory, changing social norms or long arcs of technology, work or family life align well with the way he already writes.
Books, radio and cross-platform storytelling
Glover’s columns sit alongside a substantial body of books, many of them bestsellers, which extend his humour and memoir-style writing into longer form.
His titles range from personal memoir to comic reflections on contemporary life, reinforcing his preference for narrative and character over pure issue analysis. On radio, he presents long-running programs that mix interviews, panel discussions and comedy, including a drive-time show and a regular comedy format. That broadcast background shapes his print work: pieces are paced like segments, with a clear premise, a build and a payoff that would also land in conversation.
For any potential story, this means he is attuned to voices as well as facts, and will often focus on how people talk about an experience rather than on data alone.
Columnist’s lens on entertainment and culture
Although his beat is entertainment, Glover’s coverage is defined less by specific industries and more by how audiences experience culture in daily life. He writes from the vantage point of a columnist rather than a critic, using humour and anecdote to examine how television, books, music, trends and social debates intersect with family, work and personal history.
His long tenure in newspapers and radio means he is comfortable drawing threads between popular culture and broader social change, often folding commentary on politics or public policy into stories that still read as entertainment pieces. Material that opens up the human side of a cultural story - how it feels, what it changes in routines or relationships - fits closely with his established style.
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