Career
In a freelance career spanning 20 years he has edited and authored more than forty books and broadcast on television and radio. He has run education workshops from infant schools to universities, working regularly with musicians on opera and music theatre projects. He has worked across Europe as well as China and the United States.
Clayton worked with Yorkshire Art Circus for twenty-five years and presented a documentary series for Yorkshire called My Yorkshire.
He is a regular radio broadcaster and workshop leader for numerous cultural institutions. Following an inquest into her death in 2008 - which recorded a verdict of misadventure - Clayton criticised the canoe hire industry and called for it to be more strictly regulated.
In 2013 and 2015, Ian Clayton was visiting scholar in creative writing at North East Normal University in Changchun, China, where he was invited to give the Masters Lecture at the media school, and was a guest lecturer at Jilin University. Still angry after all these years - British Broadcasting Corporation 4.