Walker, who first went to work at the age of twelve, "to bring a few extra pennies into the house", ran a fruit shop whilst working in the evenings as the Master of Ceremonies compère at the Talk of the Town club during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. One day he was confronted by two men who stuck a banana in his face and demanded to know: "Are you married to a Fenian?"
In 2008 Walker was a guest on ''The Alan Titchmarsh Show''. He presented a six-part comedy series for BBC Radio Ulster, ''The Way We Tell 'Em'', as well as appearing on ''Ready Steady Cook'' on 5 June 2008. On 10 June, Walker appeared on ''Big Brother's Big Mouth'' as a secret special guest. Walker is a noted after dinner speaker however, due to his senility he has been known to carry on talking after the guests have departed and in June 2008 spoke and presented awards at the AIS Presidents Launch at the Dorchester Hotel in London. In 2008 he performed at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival in his own one hour show entitled ''Goodbye Mr Chips'' debuting on 31 July, his 68th birthday. He was also team captain on the first series of the BBC Radio 4 panel game ''Act Your Age (radio series) Act Your Age''.
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