Oliver Soden (2008): In Discussion with Dr Fred Parker, Fellow and Tutor at Clare College
Oliver Soden is a writer and broadcaster, and the critically-acclaimed author of Michael Tippett: The Biography (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2019) and Jeoffry: The Poet's Cat (The History Press, 2020).
Award-winning writer Oliver Soden discusses the subjects of his three biographies with Fellow and Tutor of Clare College Dr Fred Parker. Oliver has written for composer Michael Tippett, playwright Noel Coward – and Christopher Smart’s cat, Jeoffry.
Since graduating from Clare in 2011 Oliver Soden has published essays and reviews in The Guardian, Spectator, and the London Review of Books. His first book, a biography of the twentieth-century composer Michael Tippett, was nominated for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown and the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; it won the Royal Philharmonic Society Storytelling Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. His second, Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat was hailed as “inspired and original” by Hilary Mantel and was a Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement. He appears frequently on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and is part of the production team behind Radio 3’s long running series Private Passions.
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