Zeb Soanes
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Broadcaster @ClassicFM | Author @CBGBooks | Concert Presenter @Podium_Music | Voiceover @advoiceofficial | EVENTS
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This was my Christmas present as I left the house at 7am to cycle to Kennington to read at St Anselm’s. Christmas Day morning is the only time I would cycle around the Elephant and Castle roundabout! Very warmest Christmas wishes to you all from me and the foxes xx 🦊🎄🐾
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Meet Gaspard, our handsome urban fox, waiting on the doorstep when I arrived home.
@DeBeauvoirAssn
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A magical week in Mexico ended along with the old year. One moment we were posing the customary ‘Game of Soanes’ photo when at any ancient monument (here, the Temple of the Magician, Uxmal.) The next, he got down on one knee and proposed. (Yes, it IS a large box.) I said ‘yes.’
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Thank you for all your kind messages welcoming me back today. On 1st April I had a stroke and F.A.S.T. action was key: if you have (F)acial or (A)rm weakness or (S)peech problems, (T)ime to call 999. Thanks to the excellent team at
@UCLH
#NHNN
for their care |
@TheStrokeAssoc
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Conversations with Gaspard. She came when called from near her den and we spent half an hour on the doorstep together in the light evening. Magical - I never take it for granted.
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So very proud of my talented partner,
@christophe_ceramics
Having taken up pottery just two years ago in lockdown, he has been selected for this year’s The Great
@PotteryThrow
Down. We’re looking-forward to the adventure! Watch Episode 1 with me on Sun 8th Jan, 7.45pm
@Channel4
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Absolutely love this street art that has sprung up overnight in my home town of Lowestoft. Spotted by the station as I head back to London. Of course the skip of giant chips needs to stay to complete it.
#lowestoft
@LowestoftTweets
@lowjournal
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A joyous end to a rainy night. Gaspard brought one of the cubs to say hello, what shall we call her/him?
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Travelling back to London on the train with my sister. One of our mother’s many endearing quirks is STILL writing our names on our sandwiches. Love you Jeanette Soanes. 🥰
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An exciting new adventure begins. Join me weekday evenings from 7 for three hours of sublime music on
@ClassicFM
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I know, I know, ENOUGH with the fox pictures. Gaspard came to watch me fold my bike. He wasn't impressed by British engineering.
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Each night I blithely cycle home from
@ClassicFM
past the magnificent facade of the
@britishmuseum
but this time stopped for a moment to take it in. The gates were open and I had a lovely brief exchange with the security guard about appreciating things 🙂
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Chatted to this poor little fox on my way home from the launch of
@MattMaranPhoto
book at
@NHM_London
@ChrisGPackham
#FoxOfTheDay
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Eight years ago Peter Donaldson, one of the greatest radio voices, died. Two weeks before, we had lunch for the last time: fish and chips and a pint of his beloved
@Adnams
. Walking around his beautiful cottage garden afterwards, he gave me a pot of rosemary, “For remembrance.”…
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What better end to a final day on
@BBCr4today
than a picnic in The Regent’s Park with these two gorgeous titans of broadcasting, my chums
@bbcpaddy
and
@PetrocTrelawny
|
@BBCRadio4
@BBCRadio3
@BBCRadio2
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Gaspard followed me home from four streets away, pausing for cars and we caught up with our week on the doorstep.
#urbanfox
@gaspardthefox
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For the 20 years I have known her,
@corrie_corfield
has been leaving the BBC. Now she’s only gone and done it. She held my hand on my first
@TheNewsQuiz
and
@BBCr4today
and there have been so many laughs (mostly unrepeatable). With love 😘
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The tragedy of older friends is that they die. This is Betty, 'a girl who liked books'. No obit can include all her stories: parties with Dylan Thomas, errands for Guy Burgess and weekends with Auden, Britten and Joyce Grenfell. I'll miss our lunches! RIP
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My farewell speech in the ‘BBC Pub’ yesterday surrounded by wonderful colleagues and friends including former Radio 4 announcers (spot them) Harriet Cass, Alice Arnold and Brian Perkins. It really has been a blast, BBC, thank you 🙏
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Is there a radio equivalent of dimming the lights on Broadway when a broadcasting legend dies? There should be.
#SteveWright
📻 ⭐️
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Who could refuse that face? Getting home from work after midnight has its advantages, when welcomed by such a handsome neighbour.
#urbanfox
@gaspardthefox
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After a week away on tour from London, Meeting Goupil was the perfect welcome. He followed me all the way home 🦊
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Greeted home from work after the midnight news by this handsome chap. He was pleased about ABBA 📻
#Goupil
@gaspardthefox
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A visit from mother and son this evening: Goupil (left) and Gaspard (right) - checking up on Brexit negotiations
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Those nice people at BBC Careers have made this film about my time at the BBC, with tips for any aspiring announcers. Au revoir, Auntie, it’s been truly WONDERFUL x
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This morning is the last time I’ll need to set three staggered alarms to get up for
@BBCr4today
— One on my phone, one on the
@Sonos
and one old fashioned battery alarm clock (for the time the power went off in the night and the previous two failed! 😱)
#SweetDreams
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To sit back on
@TheNewsQuiz
and watch
@JeremyJHardy
entertain (and frequently educate) audiences to a length you knew would never make the edit was one of life’s joys. Off stage he was the kindest man and we loved him.
@BBCRadio4
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Goupil, you are your mother’s son. He followed me half a mile at my heels all the way home.
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A special afternoon in the Soanes family. My mother was devastated to lose her wedding ring of 55 years whilst walking the dog on the beach. Under the guise of a birthday party we surprised her with a blessing ceremony for a new ring this afternoon.
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After an absence of weeks whilst having her cubs, Gaspard has started appearing every night again. It is wonderful to see her looking so healthy.
@gaspardthefox
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‘Don’t forget your breakfast.’ Gaspard sees me off to work at
@bbcradio4
at 4.15am |
@gaspardthefox
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Heartening to see I’m not the only one up for work at 4am;
@gaspardthefox
came to see me off.
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What a beautiful day to start a new job. I’m listening through lots of Smooth Classics ahead of my first programme, tonight from 7-10pm on
@ClassicFM
There’ll be a new ‘Piece for Parents’ in the first hour (a reward for getting small ones to bed!) 💤 🎶 You can text me via 6-1812
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Working on
@BBCr4today
has been so much fun, the very serious business of the news aside, and a great privilege to deliver it as the UK wakes. Thank you
@bbcnickrobinson
for such a generous tribute at 08.10 — I’m going to miss you all — BUT I’M NOT RETIRING! 😁
A huge thank you to
@zebsoanes
in the studio for his last Today Programme this morning with
@bbcnickrobinson
and
@BBCSimonJack
. A masterclass as ever and always a huge privilege for us to have his calm presence and beautiful tones at 0600.
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Pleased to see
@gaspardthefox
well after the cold snap. A little tired, she gave the biggest yawn.
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Returned home from work at 1am to find Goupil. We sat together for 10 minutes.
@GaspardTheFox
@Mammal_Society
#urbanfoxes
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I stopped on my bicycle at 2.15am on my way home from
@BBCRadio4
to speak with this very agreeable fox, who wished to show me his winter coat. We commented on the mildness, despite reports of heavy snow elsewhere.
#fox
#london
@Mammal_Society
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Proud of my
@BBCPride
colleagues marching today at
@PrideInLondon
Sorry I can’t join you but I’m manning the airwaves at
@BBCRadio4
Hope it stays sunny. Have a great day. 🏳️🌈
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Everyone, this is Sébastien, who came to say hello when I popped to the garage (apols for dark image). He takes after
@gaspardthefox
and has the most beautiful black-stocking legs.
#urbanfox
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1am, cycling home and unmistakably spotted Goupil whom I hadn’t seen for such a long time, all grown up and very healthy. Neighbouring foxes looked-on as wary spectators. We had the deserted street to ourselves to catch-up for half an hour before the cold forced me home. Magic 🦊
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A magical 30 minutes sat on the doorstep with
@gaspardthefox
telling her all about Goupil’s visit last night.
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Good afternoon and Happy New Year
@gaspardthefox
🎉 - still the handsomest fox (vixen!) in London 🦊 x
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Friends across the airwaves:
@BBCRadio3
Breakfast meets
@ClassicFM
Smooth Classics at Seven over tea and cake at a Soho institution
@Maison_Bertaux
🫖 🍰 📻 🎼
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Terrific team at
@ClassicFM
tonight, everyone pulling together to reschedule music and hopefully strike the right note. I cycled past Buckingham Palace on my way home.
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It’s a year since I last set three alarms to be up at this ungodly hour but it is LOVELY to be back on
@BBCr4today
with
@MishalHusain
and
@bbcnickrobinson
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@BBCRadio4
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Well look who it is on my way home. This is Goupil, from Gaspard’s first litter of cubs, out hunting for food. He says hello.
#urbanfox
@gaspardthefox
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Goupil followed me home and we sat on the front step catching up. Of all weather foxes really don’t like wind and every now and then when the wind got up he’d scurry for cover and then return again.
@Mammal_Society
@GaspardTheFox
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Thousands of bees survived the Notre Dame Cathedral fire. Three hives on the roof, housing around 200,000 bees were feared destroyed but aerial images show the hives intact and the bees unscathed and still active 🙏 VIVE LES ABEILLES! 🐝 🇫🇷
@BBCNews
@britishbee
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Home late from the
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and welcomed by these two. Goupil grabbed the paper rose out of the front of my case that speakers are given at the festival and I let them keep it - it is theirs really after all. 🌹 🦊
@GaspardTheFox
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‘The welcoming party’ - 3am return home from Stansted after a week away writing the third foxy adventure for
@gaspardthefox
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After a day filming in Manchester, Gaspard was the perfect welcome home 🦊 ♥️
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The benefit of not having my phone snatched on the tube tonight is being able to share this picture on return home:
@TfL
@BTPLondon
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Just opened the most extraordinary surprise gift made by the wife of my middle school form teacher - a Gaspard quilt! Utterly speechless! Thank you so so much Mr and Mrs Boast 😍🦊
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Gaspard and Goupil followed me home, trotting behind me from three streets away. We’ve been catching up.
@gaspardthefox
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Conversations with Goupil. As usual he followed me half a mile home, after I left dinner with friends and we sat for 20 minutes, catching up.
#urbanfoxes
@mammalsociety
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I have discovered the secret to my mother’s youth. Her daily ice cream after her walk with Oscar the dog on
#Lowestoft
North Beach.
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I love this crepuscular time of day when Broadcasting House glows like a bejewelled wedding cake.
@BBCRadio4
@AboutTheBBC
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Never too old for a birthday cake made by mum! (Two pieces 🤫)
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Goupil visited tonight, all grown up, with his mother’s good looks and the only one of
@gaspardthefox
cubs we still see
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‘And that’s what they mean by a hard border ...’ - Fox News Time in Islington 🦊
#urbanfox
@gaspardthefox
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Goupil wanted a summary of the week’s news. I said it was late and we might be some time ...
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