Paul is one of the best-known voices in BBC Sport. He has been a leading BBC commentator on track and field for 20 years, as well as contributing to a host of other BBC programmes.

Paul was an athlete for 10 years and was a British and Commonwealth record holder for the hammer. He competed in the 1976 and 1980 Olympics, and was also captain of the Great Britain and England athletics teams.

The first big event Paul covered for the BBC was the World Athletics Championships in Rome in 1987. Since then he has attended every major games and championship for track and field athletics, as well as four Winter Olympics, the Paralympics and other national and international sporting events as a commentator.

He has been a commentator for BBC TV productions on such programmes as the World's and Britain’s Strongest Man, the Lord Mayor's Show, Comic and Sport Relief, Superstars, the Teachers' Awards, Blue Peter and various outside broadcasts.

Among Paul’s most memorable achievements are throwing a hammer through a factory roof and into the front seat of very expensive car and breaking the world record for throwing the boomerang!