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The host of Saturday Live has been ranked amongst the top ten British voices in a poll conducted by Radio Times. Over the weekend breakfast table millions tune in to hear Fi Glover invite her guests to own up to peculiar habits, share 'inheritance tracks' and sometimes confess dark secrets - often becoming the subject of on-the-spot poetry. Fi herself admits to being reduced to tears by Lord Archer.
Fi made her name with Radio 4 listeners on the Sunday morning show, Broadcasting House. She has worked across the spectrum of network output, with presenting credits from How to Survive in the 21st Century to The Travel Show. It was this that sparked her first book: I am an Oil Tanker - travels with my radio.
In 2009 Fi chaired the judging panel for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also hosted awards celebrations for the publishing and planning industries, and the Royal Institute of British Architects. Described by The Guardian as 'velvet-voiced', Fi combines a deliciously quick wit with an ability to communicate on the same level as her audience - be they enjoying breakfast or a post-conference dinner.
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QUOTE UNQUOTE: TRAVEL
"The first condition of understanding a country is to smell it" - TS Eliot
"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised" - Apsley Cherry-Garrard
"The road is life" - Jack Kerouac
"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train" - Oscar Wilde
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. The great affair is to move" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself" - William Hazlitt
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness" - Mark Twain
"Shaking off the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine and the slavery of Home, man feels once more happy" - Sir Richard Burton
"Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God" - Kurt Vonnegut
