Search results
Discover presenters and programmes on Classic FM, the UK’s favourite classical music radio station.
- Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins presents Saturday Night at the Movies on...
- Anne-Marie Minhall
From 1pm every weekday, Anne-Marie Minhall is at the helm...
- Jane Jones
Jane Jones keeps you company through the night on Fridays...
- David Mellor
Barrister, former Cabinet minister, football anorak and...
- Classic FM Requests
To make a request, Tweet @ClassicFM, text 61812, or email...
- Hall of Fame Hour
Store; Charity; Podcasts; Events; Dating; Follow us on:...
- Andrew Collins
- Classic FM
- BBC Radio
- Shipping Forecast
- Television
- Live Events
- Concerts
- Acting
- Writing
- Charity
- Community
Zeb Soanes is the presenter of Relaxing Evenings on Classic FM, the UK’s most popular classical music station. His nightly show from 7-10pm regularly attracts 1.3 million listeners each week. In January 2024 he recorded a special interview with Dame Judi Dench, in which she shared her favourite pieces of classical music, broadcast over the Easter w...
For over 20 years Zeb was an authoritative newsreader and reassuring voice of the Shipping Forecast to millions of listeners on BBC Radio 4. He announced some of the biggest events in recent years from the final result of the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump to the unfolding of the Coronavirus pandemic. He was a regular fixture on...
His long association with The Shipping Forecast led him to read it from the top of Orfordness lighthouse, at the closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and to open London Fashion Week — for which Voguemagazine described him as ‘a BBC radio presenter whose voice sounds like a massage feels’. He wrote the forward to The Shipping Forecast Puzzle Boo...
Zeb launched BBC FOUR on 2nd March 2002 as the first voice to welcome viewers to the new channel. He subsequently appeared on BBC FOUR as a regular presenter for the BBC Proms, interviewing star musicians and conductors including: Gianandrea Noseda, Andras Schiff, Stephen Hough . Across BBC television he has presented films for the Culture Show, Ne...
Zeb has hosted major live music events to audiences of over 8,000 in Trafalgar Square for the Royal Opera House (relayed to screens around the UK) and presented concerts at London’s Southbank Centre and Royal Albert Hall. At literary festivals including Hay and Edinburgh he chairs discussions with best-selling authors, who have included: Francesca ...
He has earned a reputation as ‘the go-to person for music narration’(Daily Telegraph) with the UK’s leading orchestras, performing favourite works for children including The History of Babar the Little Elephant, Paddington’s First Concert and Peter and the Wolf. He was the Voice of God in the Aldeburgh Festival production of Noye’s Fludde to conclu...
Zeb originally trained as an actor and has performed in BBC radio dramas with Simon Russell-Beale and Toby Jones. He played Derek Nimmo in the story of the classic BBC comedy series All Gas and Gaiters and was the sinister librarian to David Warner’s Doctor Who for Big Finish Productions. In the short film, Mayday, starring Juliet Stevenson, he rel...
His best-selling first book for children,Gaspard the Fox, inspired by his remarkable encounters with an urban fox,was published in May 2018, illustrated by James Mayhew. It was followed by Gaspard Best in Show (2019). The third adventure, Gaspard’s Foxtrot (2021), was conceived as both a book and narrated concert work, composed by Jonathan Dove, wh...
Zeb is an active patron of Young Sounds UK and the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine. He was appointed the first patron of The Mammal Societyin recognition of his cultural rehabilitation of the urban fox through his children’s books, representing the UK’s favourite mammal more sympathetically than its sly literary predecessors. He reg...
In 2021 he commissioned the royal sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley to create a statue of his hometown hero, Benjamin Britten, to be installed on the seafront opposite the composer’s birthplace in Lowestoft. It will depict Britten at 14, the age when his talent was recognised, inspiring future generations of local children to achieve their ambitions. Find...
- London
Andrea Bocelli. Learn all about our Classic FM presenters and what's coming up in their shows this week.
Classic FM. In July 2022, Zeb was invited to join Classic FM, the UK’s biggest classical music station to present his own programme of relaxing music, weeknights from 7-10pm. His show regularly attracts 1.3 million listeners each week.
- London
Listen live to Classic FM online radio. Discover classical music and find out more about the best classical composers, musicians and their works.
Classic FM. ‘Classic FM’ is the UK’s only 100 per cent classical music radio station. Since it began broadcasting in September 1992, the station has brought classical music to millions of people across the UK. ‘Classic FM’ is part of Global media and entertainment group.
People also ask
What or who is Classic FM?
What's on Classic FM's Christmas programme?
How do I get in touch with Classic FM?
Where can I listen to classical music online?
How do I listen to Classic FM?
What radio station does Nick present a Sunday morning show on?
From Radio Caroline to Classic FM. Foreword by Paul Gambaccini. Over 140 historic photographs. Order Your Copy Now
