Paul Vaughan

Paul Vaughan was an English actor author and voiceover virtuoso known to millions as the Horizon voice on BBC2 as well as for Waking Ned Devine 1998 Threads 1984 and The Escapist 2008 His voice was his prize accomplishment in professional use into his 80s but it was not the only one He matriculated at Oxford in 1943 reading English and French at Wadham College in two spells wrapped around national service in the Royal Engineers finally emerging with a wartime degree A lifelong clarinettist selftaught from the recordings of Frank Teschemacher he most enjoyed sitting in the midst of an orchestra and contributing to its sublime sound His first books were spinoffs from his career as a medical journalist including a history of the British Medical Association and a study of the contraceptive pill The Pill on Trial 1972