With potentially the most exciting FA Cup Final in years and a Saturday morning hangover from hell, it would have been very easy to have dreamt up some excuse to have avoided this short but highly entertaining question-and-answer session.

It would, however, have been terribly bad-mannered.

Manners, from Simon Fanshawe's persuasive viewpoint at least, have nothing to do with class, wealth or political sensibility and everything to do with personal responsibility.

According to his book, The Done Thing: Negotiating The Minefield Of Modern Manners, neither are they about the correct way to hold a knife or other petty irrelevancies invented by the aristocracy to confuse common people.

Instead, Fanshawe argues, good manners are essential to avoid conflict between strangers, which is becoming increasingly important as more and more people squeeze onto our little planet.

If all this sounds a bit worthy, Fanshawe and Guy Browning, who writes the witty How To... column in The Guardian, made sure they kept things lighthearted and their good-natured banter made the hour-and-a-bit show fly by.

Actually, the audience could have rebelled and demanded more value for their money.

If only we weren't all so well-mannered.