Alex Graham has been a leading figure in UK independent television production sector for almost 30 years. He set up Wall to Wall in 1987 and built it into one of the major indies with an unrivalled slate of critically acclaimed and popular programming including New Tricks, Long Lost Family, Who Do You Think You Are?The Voice UK, A Rather English Marriage, The 1900 House and the Oscar winning Man on Wire.

Alex is chair of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, a trustee of New Deal of the Mind, a director of Hampstead Theatre and an advisor on the new NFTS Entrepreneurial Producing Diploma for the Creative Industries. He is a visiting professor of television at Lincoln University and in 2009 he received an honorary doctorate from City University. He is a fellow of the Royal Television Society and the Royal Society of Arts.

“Having built a business myself I learned the hard way that the tough part is not having the initial idea or even raising that first round of funding. It’s scaling the business and making it sustainable.

When i was starting up there was nothing like the School For Creative Start-Ups and so I had to figure it out for myself. As a result, our business very nearly died – several times over. But I’m still here and the opportunity to pass on some of that hard-earned experience to the next generation was too good to pass up.”

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