[6] At the age of fourteen Sooke starred as Kay Harker in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of John Masefield's children's fantasy novel, The Box of Delights.
[7][8] Sooke won a Westminster Scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford,[5] where he read English language and literature and won the university's Charles Oldham Shakespeare Prize.
[11] Sooke also serves as an art critic, and writes periodical-length pieces on art theory, history and criticism, as well as penning investigative pieces that have appeared in journals, and newspapers.
These include The Telegraph, where he is a deputy art critic after joining the paper as a trainee journalist in 2003.
[2] In addition, Sooke has written books on pop art, Henri Matisse and Roy Lichtenstein.