Birdsong an adaptation of Sebastian Faulk’s best-selling novel about lovers torn apart by World War I stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Wraysford, whose pre-war affair with Isabelle Azaire has an enduring effect on him as he fights in the trenches.
Part 1
Sunday, April 22, 2012, 8pm
In 1910, Englishman Stephen Wraysford goes to France to study textile manufacturing and falls in love with a factory owner’s bewitching wife, Isabelle. Amid the shellfire of the Western Front in 1916, his memories of the past haunt him.
Part 2
Sunday, April 29, 2012, 8pm
Stephen and his men go over the top in one of the bloodiest battles ever recorded, the Battle of the Somme. Will he survive and will he be reunited with Isabelle, the Frenchwoman he loved before the war?
Watch Sundays, April 21 & 29, 2012 at 8pm.
