Peter York is an author and broadcaster who came to fame writing the Sloane Ranger Handbook with Ann Barr. He was also the Style Editor of Harpers & Queen for 10 years and became a media commentator on English social trends and traits, regularly appearing on television. Peter wrote Peter York's Eighties (1996), this time co-authored with Charles Jennings, which was both a book and a BBC television series. This was followed by Dictators' Homes (2005), which explored the interior design favoured by dictators as a reflection of their despotic characters. Recently Peter wrote the book, The War Against the BBC, about how an Unprecedented Combination of Hostile Forces Is Destroying Britain’s Greatest Cultural Institution... And Why People Should Care. He’s also presented a sixty-minute live show, How to Become a Nicer Type of Person, on stage in Edinburgh and London and Peter York's Hipster Handbook on BBC Four. His latest book is called A Dead Cat on your Table, and is available from the 1st of October 2024. In it he’s teamed up with renowned political cartoonist Martin Rowson, and in they dissect the divisive nature of today’s Culture Wars and how distraction and outrage are weaponized to manipulate opinion; the dead cat tactic as it’s known.

Peter York is guest number 431 on My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .

For some of Peter York’s books, visit - https://www.waterstones.com/author/peter-york/139505

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