In the first of his new six-part series, Simon Brett picks diary extracts for New Year's Eve. Thomas Moore greets 1919 with lobsters, oysters and champagne; Peter Hall has a quieter time tucked up in bed with the biography of Noel Coward in 1976; and in 1947 Cecil Beaton toasts the New
Year with 100-year-old whisky.
Readers Sean Barrett and Miriam Margolyes.