Graham's urge to generate laughter started early. He compered 6th-Form revue shows at school and again at university, went on to host charity fund-raisers, entered talent shows and even auditioned as a stand-up comedian for Opportunity Knocks.

He used his talent to amuse to embark on a second career as a speaker in 2006 while continuing in his primary job as a freelance showbiz writer. He has since entertained more than 300 audiences all over the UK with his three talks. Rotary Charter Nights and regional Rotary conferences, industry conferences, ladies' luncheon clubs, corporate events, WI gatherings, U3As and Probus clubs have all booked and enjoyed Graham's talks, all now available via Zoom or in person. Graham has been delighted to receive many glowing testimonials for all three of his talks and can forward a selectiuon of these on request.

Graham grew up in Lincoln and after grammar school there and an English degree at Manchester University, a brief taste of retail management with C&A Modes made Graham realise he wasn't cut out for selling suits. Instead he halved his salary overnight to become a trainee teaboy/journalist with the Lincolnshire Standard Group, later moving on to be a news reporter then TV/Showbiz editor on the Northants Evening Telegraph in Kettering. After seven years on the ET he took on a similar role on major morning regional paper, the Northern Echo, based in Darlington and moved from there two years later to work in Fleet Street, supplying celebrity interviews and TV previews to 10 regional daily papers from the London offices of the Westminster Press group, now part of Newsquest.

Two years after that he went freelance and went on to write about TV for both regional and national newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, the Daily Record (Scotland's Daily Mirror), the TV magazines of The Sun, The Mirror and the Express, plus TV Choice, TV Times, TV Quick and women's magazines Best and My Weekly.