RADIO CHOICE

CELIA IMRIE (pictured), who’s recently appeared in the films The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Molly Moon, joins KEN BRUCE (RADIO 2, 9.30AM) this week to pick her Tracks Of My Years.

HISTORICAL battle re-enacters are much mocked — but, as one of them points out in this look at the forthcoming bicentennial re-creation of the Battle of Waterloo, VIVE L’EMPEREUR! (RADIO 4, 11AM) lots of hobbies require dressing up in strange clothes in uncomfortable surroundings. Max Cotton talks to ‘troops’ from both sides of the battle, meets a few ‘Napoleons’, discovers the difference between ‘stitch-counters’ and ‘FARBs’ (don’t ask), and comes away with a lot of respect for these knowledgeable obsessives.