The Times Guide To Modern Manners: Peter York at Cheltenham Literature Festival

Is it OK to commit to something ‘nearer the time’ or answer your mobile during a conversation? Should we dress for the occasion? Vary our vocab to suit a situation? The Times Literary Editor Robbie Millen chairs a well-mannered panel of etiquette experts who can advise: co-author of The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook Peter York (Authenticity is a Con), novelist and critic D. J. Taylor (The New Books of Snobs) and the irrepressible Times columnist Rachel Johnson.