Events
The Snowman & Little Red Riding Hood (1.30pm & 4pm)
Bring the whole family to experience the magic of the The Snowman on a big screen with music performed by a live orchestra. Before it, Roald Dahl’s adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood is narrated by Radio 4’s Zeb Soanes in Patterson’s charming orchestral piece for children.
The performance lasts approximately 1 hour
Christmas Family Concert - The Fir Tree (2pm & 4pm)
Come and listen to a musical adaptation of The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen - brought to life by the Wimbledon Symphony Orchestra with narrator and author Zeb Soanes and award-winning composer and conductor Leo Geyer.
Peter and the Wolf
A magical family concert suitable for children aged 3-7, brought to life by the Orion Orchestra conducted by Gary Matthewman and narrated by Zeb Soanes.
Betjeman's Banana Blush
A celebration of Betjeman’s poems set to music by BAFTA winning composer Jim Parker (House of Cards, Foyle’s War), performed by Zeb Soanes and Carole Boyd (Lynda Snell, The Archers)
The Great and Wide Sea - Crescendo Music Festival
In this special festival event, the five unaccompanied male singers of Opus Anglicanum and their narrator Zeb Soanes present an atmospheric programme of original commissions from two of the UK’s leading female composers: a complete reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic Rime of the Ancient Mariner with music by Lynne Plowman, and Sally Beamish’s powerful Sea Psalm, setting an account from the only surviving officer of the destroyer HMS Duchess, which was sunk on 12 December 1939. Come and enjoy this memorable concert in the evocative setting of Pakefield Church, from where you can gaze out over the great and wide sea...
'London's Handsomest Fox' - Zeb Soanes interviewed by Paddy O'Connell
Zeb Soanes will talk to fellow Radio 4 broadcaster Paddy O’Connell about his journey from growing up in Lowestoft to featuring in the pages of the Daily Mail for feeding a fox.
A Modernist Review
Join us in the glorious 19th century Chapel of King’s College London for an evening of music, dance and poetry. This ‘Modernist Revue’ will include the premiere of live artist Deborah Pearson’s rendition of Hope Mirrlees’s 1919 ‘Paris: A Poem’, music from suffragette opera, Rhondda Rips it Up!, a response to the Ballets Russes performed by Isabella McGuire Mayes and music by Germaine Tailleferre and Claude Debussy from the Virginia Woolf & Music project. The evening will be compèred by BBC Radio 4's own Zeb Soanes.
Walton's Façade
Zeb and Carole Boyd (best known for playing Lynda Snell in The Archers) give a live performance of their acclaimed recording of Façade, Edith Sitwell's eccentric poetry set to music by William Walton.
Conductor Ben Palmer
Covent Garden Symphony Orchestra.