Ep. 431 - Peter York
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
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 .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. |
| 0:13.3 | My name's Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is, as it's been for the past 400-plus episodes, |
| 0:19.9 | the podcast where people tell me five things |
| 0:21.9 | from their life that they wish they had in a time capsule. Four things that they cherish, |
| 0:26.8 | and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. My guest in this episode is Peter York. |
| 0:33.3 | Peter is an author and broadcaster who came to fame writing the Sloan Ranger Handbook with Anne Barr. |
| 0:39.6 | He was also the style editor of Harpers and Queens for 10 years |
| 0:43.0 | and became a media commentator on English social trends and traits regularly appearing on television. |
| 0:49.5 | Peter wrote Peter York's 80s in 1996, so it only took him six years, this time co-authored with Charles Jennings, |
| 0:57.4 | which was both a book and a BBC television series. He also wrote Dictators Homes, |
| 1:03.4 | which explored the interior design favoured by dictators as a reflection of their despotic characters. |
| 1:09.8 | Recently, Peter wrote the book, |
| 1:11.4 | The War Against the BBC, |
| 1:13.4 | about how an unprecedented combination of hostile forces |
| 1:16.3 | is destroying Britain's greatest cultural institution |
| 1:19.8 | and why people should care. |
| 1:22.8 | He's also presented a 60-minute live show |
| 1:25.1 | how to become a nicer type of person, |
| 1:29.6 | on stage in Edinburgh and London. |
| 1:37.4 | And of course, he presented Peter York's Hipster Handbook on BBC 4. 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 the renowned political cartoonist Martin Rosen, |
| 1:46.2 | and they dissect the divisive nature of today's culture wars, and how distraction and outrage |
| 1:52.5 | are weaponized and manipulate opinion, the dead cat tactic, as it's known. Anyway, he talks |
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