You can now listen to the musical tale of Gaspard’s Foxtrot, read by its author Zeb Soanes, accompanied by Jonathan Dove’s exciting score.

PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA

Zeb will host a '“dazzling" gala celebrating the musical legacy of his home town's most famous son at the Wigmore Hall later this year. It will take place as part of an ongoing appeal to raise funds to install a statue of Benjamin Britten, as a boy, looking out over the sea that inspired his music in his birth town of Lowestoft.

LOWESTOFT JOURNAL

Zeb talks abut the power of radio to provide companionship over the festive period.

WAITROSE FOOD MAGAZINE

Royalty, James Bond and a lame dog have all benefitted from John Lobb’s exquisite shoe-making craftsmanship during the past 173 years, says Zeb Soanes.

COUNTRY LIFE

The broadcaster and children's author Zeb Soanes has become a patron of Norwich Puppet Theatre.

BBC NEWS

Inspired by J.M. Barrie’s generosity, Zeb announces that royalties from the sale of his new book Gaspard’s Christmas will benefit St Martin-in-the-Fields homeless charity in perpetuity.

After a lifetime of benevolent haunting by the composer Benjamin Britten, Zeb Soanes has commissioned a statue of his home-town hero.

COUNTRY LIFE

‘I want to visit all the locations of the shipping forecast’. David McGillivray interviews Zeb Soanes for Radio Times magazine.

RADIO TIMES

The broadcaster and children’s author talks to Flora Watkins about finding inspiration in Islington and buzzing about on his Brompton.

COUNTRY LIFE

A popular broadcaster, author and newsreader who grew up in Lowestoft has returned to his home town to help inspire children at his former school.

LOWESTOFT JOURNAL

When Zeb announced in 2022 that, after 25 years, he was to leave the BBC, the Careers team grabbed him to talk about the highs and the lows of his time at the corporation.

BBC CAREERS

Zeb joins Classic FM to present Smooth Classics at 7

Zeb met HRH The Duchess of Cornwall at a celebration of 125yrs of Country life Magazine at Claridges Hotel.

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COUNTRY LIFE

On Thursday, 30th June, after reading Radio 4’s Six O’clock News, I will leave Broadcasting House for the last time as a full-time member of staff …

“Intriguing, humorous, full of adventure…a book that is simply, deeply magical in every way.”

GOOD READS

“A brilliantly musical children's book by Zeb Soanes, the book oozes a sense of mystery and encourages readers to be curious and adventurous.”

MUSIC TEACHER MAGAZINE

Zeb chose Julia, Lady Peel by Thomas Lawrence for Country Life magazine’s Christmas issue.

COUNTRY LIFE

A review of a concert by the award-winning ORA Singers and BBC Radio 4 presenter Zeb Soanes, conducted by the choir’s founder, Suzi Digby (Lady Eatwell)

SEEN AND HEARD INTERNATIONAL

Zeb Soanes is a newsreader, actor and writer, known to millions as one of the most recognisable voices of BBC Radio 4 who has guided us around the Shipping Forecast for over a decade. From New Year in Norfolk to a near-disaster at Buxton Opera House via a trip to the West Coast of America, Zeb is our travel companion for this week’s episode.

Created and Presented by Nick Evans

March 4th is World Book Day and amongst the new releases is Zeb Soanes’ new book Gaspard’s Foxtrot. Jonathan Dove has teamed up with Zeb to write a 30-minute concert work for narrator and orchestra based on the book that will be premiered this year at the Three Choirs Festival.

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