On the trail of an Oscar Winner in #Staffordshire

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, January 2016)

In Staffordshire and Cheshire we're no strangers to famous faces, home to popstars and footballers.

But it's probably not often you bump in to an Oscar winning actor, especially not when you're picking up some bread and milk in your local village convenience store.

But that's what happened to shoppers in Eccleshall on New Year's Eve when Eddie Redmayne and his wife popped into the Co-Op store for some supplies.

BBC Radio Stoke's EMMA THOMAS has visited the village to find out more...