Graham Little (born 12 April 1978) is a freelance

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television presenter and journalist. He is also the older brother of

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striker, and Northern Ireland international, Andrew Little.

Broadcasting career

Little joined UTV in 2002 after working for

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in his native

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. The following year, Little was voted the Best Broadcast Newcomer at the BT/IPR Awards. In 2006, Little left UTV to work on a freelance basis, but has appeared on the station as a relief sports presenter and two one-off documentaries. Little is currently the host of

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's coverage of Northern Ireland international football and Irish League Premiership matches and also presents regularly on

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. He also presents BBC Northern Ireland's ''Out of the Blue'' live arts programme with Joanne Salley, and appeared on ''

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'' with two short films about the ''

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'' in April 2012. He has also worked on BBC Northern Ireland consumer affairs series ''In Your Corner'', presented

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's 2010 coverage of cycling's

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, and fronted other cycling and golf programmes for

. He has also presented and commentated at MMA events for a variety of channels including Bravo in the UK and

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in Asia. and

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. Little is also one half of the BBC Northern Ireland and

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show '' Colin and Graham's Excellent Adventures'' in which he and close friend Colin Carroll tour the world and represent Ireland in obscure sporting events. He has written a travel book about his attempts to become a world champion in any sport, during which he captained Ireland to the amateur title at the World Elephant Polo Championships in Nepal. He has a regular adventure column in ''Yeah Baby'', the Inflight Magazine of BMI Baby, and is also a regular contributor to the ''

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Magazine''. He is host presenter of

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's ''The Cycle Show''.

Personal life

Little attended Enniskillen Model Primary School and

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, and went on to study English and Sports Science at Loughborough University.Belfast Telegraph: "A Little goes a long way"
dated 8 July 2006; accessed 20 January 2009 In addition to his journalism career, Little runs a media services company called NPE Media Ltd. Little is married and has two young sons. He climbed

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on honeymoon in Africa and has completed a series of endurance challenges including the

Marathon des Sables ''Marathon des Sables'', or MdS, (French for Marathon of the Sands, also known as Sahara Marathon) "Facing Africa NOMA : The Marathon des Sables", FacingAfrica.org, 2010, webpage: -->pages/mds/default.asp FA8. is a six-day, ultramaratho ...

in 2012, cycling a mountain stage of the

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, and swimming from Europe to Asia across the

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in Turkey. He also captained a Team No Prior Experience to victory in the inaugural Race Around Ireland ultra-endurance cycle race in 2009, and in July 2011 was part of a relay team that broke the record for swimming the entire length of Lough Erne in his native

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. Little's team completed the swim in 19 hours and 6 minutes, beating the previous best by three hours.

References

External links

NPE Media – Little's media services websiteVideo Memory – Little's video kiosk hire website

Archive of www.grahamlittle.tv/
from March 2012 * http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/nations/northern_ireland/nipiwk24.pdf {{DEFAULTSORT:Little, Graham 1978 births Living people People from Enniskillen Television presenters from Northern Ireland Journalists from Northern Ireland UTV (TV channel) Alumni of Loughborough University Broadcasters from County Fermanagh