Over a 25-year career at the BBC, Zeb Soanes was an authoritative newsreader and the reassuring voice of the Shipping forecast on BBC Radio 4 and presented the BBC Proms. He is now the host of Relaxing Evenings on Classic FM.

Radio drama includes: Beautiful Dreamers, The Symphony for all Creation (BBC Radio 4); Dead Girls Tell No Tales (BBC Radio 4); All Mouth and Trousers (BBC Radio 4); Dr Who: The Library in the Body (Big Finish)

As an author he created the best-selling Gaspard the Fox series of children’s books, illustrated by James Mayhew and adapted as narrated orchestral works with music by Jonathan Dove CBE.

Concert work includes: BBC Concert Orchestra; Britten Sinfonia; Hallé Orchestra; Orchestra of the Swan; Philharmonia Orchestra; Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Royal Northern Sinfonia; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Royal Scottish National Orchestra; Septura; St Martin-in-the-Fields; The King’s Singers; Ulster Orchestra; Voces8