Lupton can recall hearing his great uncle's classic children's stories set in Norfolk and the Lake District.
Lupton was born in Cambridgeshire, where there was much family heritage, and educated at the King's College School, Cambridge.
[2][3][4][5] Lupton co-founded the Company of Storytellers (with Ben Haggarty [de] and Sally Pomme Clayton) in 1985,[6][7] and for a while ran a branch of The Crick Crack Club in Norfolk.
Lupton and the Welsh storyteller Daniel Morden have written several volumes retelling ancient Greek stories.
Lupton won the "Hodja Cup" (named for the Mulla Nasreddin: "The truth is something I have never spoken.")