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This morning, he bade farewell to the Today programme; this afternoon, Zeb Soanes announced a move to 7pm on weeknights at Classic FM. 

Zeb's three hour show replaces an hour of John Brunning and two of John Suchet. 

Zeb, 45 (Denes High School, Lowestoft and University of East Anglia) used his drama degree to tour as an actor in 1997, but was tapped up to work in the newsroom at BBC Radio Norfolk before moving to London in 1998 as a continuity announcer on BBC One and BBC Two.  In 2001, he tried a six-month attachment to BBC Radio 4, returning to TV as the first voice to launch  BBC Four on 2nd March 2002, where he remained its sole announcer for ten months.  He returned to BBC Two briefly, signing off in 2003, taking up a full-time position at BBC Radio 4 the following Monday.

The name: "My parents chose to name me Zebedee after the father of the Biblical fishermen, James and John. We were an old fishing family, my father is a Methodist minister and my parents had combed the family bible for an interesting name. In later years I joked that I got off lightly as Nebuchadnezzar would have been much more of a mouthful."