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, 1980s and 1990s, and a narrator of many BBC Television science documentaries, among them Horizon. He was also a semi-professional jazz and classical musician. He did military service in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers – REME.

He also presented a programme similar to Kaleidoscope called World of Concorde for British Airways in-flight entertainment.

Other work Vaughan narrated the 1984 television drama Threads.

When the phone network Orange was launched in Britain, for many years his voice, using the tagline "The future's bright, the future's Orange", was used exclusively for the television adverts.

Musical career Paul Vaughan was a self-taught Clarinetist in both jazz and classical music and played in the Worcester Park and Wimbledon Symphony Orchestras. The Pill on Trial, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1970. 272 pages, Family Planning: The Family Planning Associations Guide to Birth Control, Queen Anne Publishers, 1969. 96 pages, Work to be Done: Careers in Mental Health, National Association for Mental Health, 1966. Doctors' Commons: A Short History of the British Medical Association, Heinemann, 1959. (Paperback – Faber and Faber, 18 August 2011). 254 pages,