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Article: Pilot of the airwaves; Profile: Roy Noble - HIS GENTLE TONES AND REASSURING PRESENCE HAVE MADE ROY NOBLE SOMETHING OF AN INSTITUTION IN WELSH BROADCASTING. BUT IT COULD ALL HAVE BEEN SO DIFFERENT FOR HIM. . .(News)
- Article from:
- South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 20, 2001
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Byline: INTERVIEW: Fred Brenton
EVERYBODY knows who Roy Noble is - even the Queen! Her Majesty is set to give him an OBE this Friday and if you don't know who he is then you must have been living on Mars for the last decade or so.
He's the whiskered Welsh version of Terry Wogan and if you haven't seen his bearded face popping up on BBC from time to time or listened to his mid-morning show on Radio Wales then you haven't lived.
But where did he and his trademark whiskers come from?
The story behind his famously furry face is simple but his ...