As Jeffrey Archer prepares to host the last of his famous Christmas parties, he remembers a few of the best moments over the years... from Margaret Thatcher flirting with Donald Sinden to Cilla Black having a chinwag with Betty Boothroyd
The guests - quite a lot of them old fogeys like me - are finding it increasingly hard to stand for two-and-a-half hours.
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