Paul Vaughan

Paul William Vaughan (24 October 1925 – 14 November 2014) was a British journalist, radio presenter (of art and science programmes) throughout the 1970s and 1980s, semi-professional jazz and classical musician and a narrator of many BBC television science documentaries, among them Horizon.

He was born in Brixton but after ten years moved to New Malden in Surrey. His father worked at the Linoleum (& Floorcloth) Manufacturers' Association (LMA), which became the British Floorcovering Manufacturers' Association. He is the younger brother of dance archivist and historian David Vaughan.

He attended Raynes Park County School (a boys' grammar school, which became Raynes Park High School in 1969), which he attended with other well-known voices on Radio 4, who also followed him to Oxford. He studied French and English at Wadham College, Oxford. He did military service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

He began work for the pharmaceutical company Menley and James, now part of GlaxoSmithKline, in Camberwell.

From 1955-65 he was the Chief Press Officer of the British Medical Association at .

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and even much of the 1990s, he was the main voice of the BBC's arts and science output. His science output was mostly on television.

From 1968 until 1995 he was the main narrator of the BBC's main science documentary series Horizon. Science and technology were rapidly developing in these decades, notably in biology and electronics, and consequently there was much to report for the Horizon series. Horizon in the 1970s and 1980s was a heavyweight science documentary series, and these years were its heyday.

On the BBC World Service he presented Science in Action, and Discovery, and on Radio 4 New Worlds (1969-1973).

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