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Zebedee Soanes (born 24 June 1976) is a British radio presenter who hosts the weekday evening music show Relaxing Evenings with Zeb Soanes on Classic FM.
He was previously a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra until June 2022. He presents live concerts, specialising in narrated orchestral works, and has published the children's book series Gaspard the Fox.
Soanes was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a Methodist minister and one of three children. He 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. He then taught drama at Langley School and toured Britain as an actor.
An appearance on BBC Local Radio led to a job as a presentation announcer for the television channels BBC One and BBC Two. His voice launched BBC Four in 2002 and he was the channel's sole announcer for ten months. He left BBC television and took up a position with BBC Radio 4 on 9 February 2003. In 2001 he began reading the Shipping Forecast, a weather report for the seas around the British Isles, which is broadcast four times a day on BBC Radio 4.
He has been engaged to record special forecasts for several TV dramas, including Sherlock, where he adds the new sea area of 'Sherrinford' (a secret facility located in secured waters) and he reads the forecast over the opening titles of the ITV detective series Grace. He also 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.
Soanes has been a newsreader for Radio 4's Today, PM and the Six O’Clock News.
He acted with Toby Jones in the radio drama Beautiful Dreamers and has reported for BBC Radio's long-running series From Our Own Correspondent. In December 2010, Radio Times magazine placed Soanes in the list of the seven most recognisable voices in Britain. Author Francesca Simon, creator of Horrid Henry, featured Soanes as the newsreader in The Lost Gods, her 2013 book for older children.
In a 2015 poll of favourite radio voices in The Sunday Times, Soanes was voted as the favourite male voice. His 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".
Zeb Soanes
Zebedee Soanes (born 24 June 1976) is a British radio presenter who hosts the weekday evening music show Relaxing Evenings with Zeb Soanes on Classic FM.
He was previously a newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 4 Extra until June 2022. He presents live concerts, specialising in narrated orchestral works, and has published the children's book series Gaspard the Fox.
Soanes was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, the son of a Methodist minister and one of three children. He 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. He then taught drama at Langley School and toured Britain as an actor.
An appearance on BBC Local Radio led to a job as a presentation announcer for the television channels BBC One and BBC Two. His voice launched BBC Four in 2002 and he was the channel's sole announcer for ten months. He left BBC television and took up a position with BBC Radio 4 on 9 February 2003. In 2001 he began reading the Shipping Forecast, a weather report for the seas around the British Isles, which is broadcast four times a day on BBC Radio 4.
He has been engaged to record special forecasts for several TV dramas, including Sherlock, where he adds the new sea area of 'Sherrinford' (a secret facility located in secured waters) and he reads the forecast over the opening titles of the ITV detective series Grace. He also 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.
Soanes has been a newsreader for Radio 4's Today, PM and the Six O’Clock News.
He acted with Toby Jones in the radio drama Beautiful Dreamers and has reported for BBC Radio's long-running series From Our Own Correspondent. In December 2010, Radio Times magazine placed Soanes in the list of the seven most recognisable voices in Britain. Author Francesca Simon, creator of Horrid Henry, featured Soanes as the newsreader in The Lost Gods, her 2013 book for older children.
In a 2015 poll of favourite radio voices in The Sunday Times, Soanes was voted as the favourite male voice. His 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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