The Odyssey Expedition was my Guinness World Record setting journey to every single country in the world without flying. It was an adventure of epic proportions. Head over to theodysseyexpedition.com to find out more!
Jinja Island is the island in the Caribbean that I won on an American gameshow. I know, I know! I lived there off-grid for three years and had a total blast. Head over to jinjaisland.com to find out how it all came about… and even how you can go visit!
TV Shows
Produced by Lonely Planet TV, commissioned by National Geographic and distributed by the BBC, Graham’s World traced the first year and 133 countries of The Odyssey Expedition. I devised, filmed and presented this landmark eight-episode series, which has been broadcast in over 70 countries worldwide.
Coming in 2023! Uptown/Downtown sees me team up with 90s supermodel Heather Stewart-Whyte to explore two very different sides of a city… while Heather is wined and dined in five-star resorts, retreats and restaurants, I’ll be slumming it on a shoestring budget, staying with locals, eating street food and finding hilarious parties to crash.
Fundraising
Now a fixture on Liverpool’s social calendar, Global Scouse Day began as an annual “scouse supper” held at my flat in north Liverpool every February 28th. Thanks to the tireless efforts of cake baking supremo Laura Worthington and celebrity chef Dave Critchley, it has grown year-on-year and now sees over 100 pubs, cafes and restaurants put scouse on the menu, raising funds for local charities in the process. Read more at globalscouseday.com
UK For
Ukraine
UK For Ukraine is about doing what we can to support the Ukrainians in their bitter struggle against the imperialist Russian invaders. We’ve organised several trips to the Ukrainian border with medical and humanitarian aid, and taken dozens of refugees to safe havens around Europe.
In what I regard as my proudest failure, I stood up against the insultingly stupid nativism that is Brexit. I organised, compered and spoke at dozens of anti-Brexit events, rallies and marches around the country. I was the creator of Three Blokes In A Pub, I designed logos, banners and placards for more than 50 pro-EU groups, and I even stood for Parliament. It didn’t work, but hell, at least I can say I tried. Read more at projecthope.eu
Books
Read all about it! A riotous account of the first year of my journey to every country in the world without flying. Follow the adventure as I overcome hell and high water, running the blockade into Cuba, being arrested trying to sneak into Russia and being locked up (twice!) in Africa for crimes I did not commit. Kirkus Reviews calls it “A riveting journey recounted by an irrepressible, highly likable narrator.”
Now that we’ve imposed crippling trade sanctions on ourselves as if we’ve just lost a major war, and rid our majestic kingdom of them pesky foreigners who came over here and did all the jobs we didn’t want to do, we are finally free to eat the godawful food of our once and glorious past: cheap and tasteless dishes of low nutritional value such as stewed pigeon, bone soup and boiled sheep’s head.
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MAN OF THE WORLD kicks off The Odyssey Expedition trilogy, the gripping true-life account of madcap adventurer Graham Hughes’s daring world record attempt to visit every country on Earth without flying, told with refreshing candour in his own words.
Buckle up for a rib-tickling multinational caper of courage, tenacity, love, friendship, danger, panic, passport stamps and geopolitics, washed down with copious amounts of alcohol.
“A riveting journey recounted by an irrepressible, highly likeable narrator.” — Kirkus Reviews
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