Professor Ray Noble
Ray Noble is an academic, novelist, musician, singer and songwriter and a lead vocalist with the Oxford Trobadors. Ray has appeared on radio and television, including BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour and Radio 3 Night Waves. His music has featured on Korean and French Television and in British Radio broadcasts. He had the honour of performing with the celebrated Occitan Folk group, Peiraguda, at the Centenary Celebration of Occitan culture La Félibrée 2019 à Périgueux.
Ray’s distinctive, versatile voice has been described variously as deep and cavernous to soft and velvet ranging from rock, pop, blues and jazz to folk and classic in style. He has been a vocalist in Jazz and Blues groups performing at the Edinburgh Fringe and was lead vocalist in the Oxford based rock band, The HeartBeats. Ray published his first novel, It Wasn't Always Late Summer, in January 2014.
Professor Raymond Noble is a theoretical biologist and ethicist and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute for Women’s Health at UCL where he was Deputy Dean of Life Sciences, sub dean in the medical school, and graduate tutor in women’s health. He has worked in India and South Africa where he has held an Honorary Professorship in medical ethics.