1. Zeb Soanes was previously a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra until June 2022.
25 Facts About Zeb Soanes
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Zeb Soanes went to Northfield St Nicholas Infants School, Harris Middle School and Denes High School, a state comprehensive school in the town, before studying Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.
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Zeb Soanes then taught drama and toured Britain as an actor.
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Zeb Soanes's voice launched BBC Four in 2002 and he was the channel's sole announcer for ten months.
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Zeb Soanes left BBC television and took up a position with BBC Radio 4 on 9 February 2003.
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Zeb Soanes has been engaged to record special forecasts for several TV dramas, including Sherlock, where he adds the new sea area of 'Sherrinford' and he reads the forecast over the opening titles of the ITV detective series Grace.
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Zeb Soanes recorded the forecast for Sandi Toksvig's play Silver Lining, produced by English Touring Theatre and for the Royal National Theatre's 2023 production of Odysseus.
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Zeb Soanes has been a newsreader for Radio 4's Today, PM and the Six O'Clock News.
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Zeb Soanes acted with Toby Jones in the radio drama Beautiful Dreamers and has reported for BBC Radio's long-running series From Our Own Correspondent.
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Zeb Soanes's voice was described, by the paper's radio critic Paul Donovan, as smoother than that of the favourite female Jane Garvey and as "evoking an earlier, more formal BBC".
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In 2016 Zeb Soanes played Derek Nimmo in the radio drama All Mouth and Trousers, by Mark Burgess, the story behind the making of the television comedy series All Gas and Gaiters.
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At Christmas 2018 Zeb Soanes appeared as part of the team for the University of East Anglia on BBC's Christmas University Challenge.
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Zeb Soanes returned to BBC Four television in August 2006 as a presenter for the BBC Proms.
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In 2017 he presented a television tribute to The Proms on the occasion of the First Night of The Proms, with Zeb Soanes partly presenting in Received Pronunciation, fitting the style of early BBC programmes.
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In 2016 Zeb Soanes was narrator for The Snowman by the Brandenburg Sinfonia at St Martin-in-the-Fields, with Andrew Earis conductor.
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Zeb Soanes narrated Peter and the Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood at the Wimbledon International Music Festival, with Leo Geyer conducting.
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In March 2017 Zeb Soanes appeared, alongside Carole Boyd, in a new recording of Facade by William Walton and Edith Sitwell, produced by Andrew Keener.
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Zeb Soanes has all of these attributes, and it's always a pleasure to hear him at work.
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Zeb Soanes is patron of a number of charities; Awards for Young Musicians, the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine, The Mammal Society and the Thaxted Festival.
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In 2022 Zeb Soanes launched a community project in his home town of Lowestoft to raise funds for a statue of Benjamin Britten by the sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley, to be located on the seafront opposite the composer's childhood home.
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Zeb Soanes unveiled the maquette for the statue in the garden of Britten's birthplace, at 21 Kirkley Cliff Road.
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Zeb Soanes's family have lived in Lowestoft since the 18th century.
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On 1 April 2021, at the age of 44, Zeb Soanes suffered a stroke.
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Zeb Soanes has since worked with the Stroke Association to raise awareness of the condition.
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Dove and Zeb Soanes collaborated again on Gaspard's Christmas which was premiered at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on Friday 23 December 2022.