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ABC radio presenter Richard Glover

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A talk in association with the exhibition Dobell Prize for Drawing 2010.

Richard Glover, 702 ABC Sydney Drive presenter, has spent 25 years writing about the minutiae of Sydney suburban life for the Sydney Morning Herald and for ABC radio’s Thank god it’s Friday. Here he reflects on his book Why men are necessary and more news from nowhere and the role of the day-to-day and ordinary in 2010’s Dobell Prize.