Oliver Soden

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Oliver Soden


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Oliver Soden is a writer and broadcaster, and the author of Michael Tippett: The Biography. Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson in April 2019, the biography was hailed by Philip Pullman as a "delight to read", and was read (by the author) for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week, with Sir Derek Jacobi playing Tippett.

Oliver was educated at Lancing College in Sussex, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in English. For his research on Michael Tippett he was awarded a Fellowship in the Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin.

His essays and reviews have appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the Guardian, Gramophone, The Art Newspaper, BBC Music Magazine, and Musical Quarterly, and he is the editor
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“Smart seems first to have been incarcerated, likely in a private asylum, in 1756, as Jeoffry scurried around the Covent Garden streets. On 6 May 1757 he was admitted to St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics on Old Street, his name optimistically entered in the ledgers with the description “curable patient”.”
Oliver Soden, Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat

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