Birdsong (play) Gregg Lowe, Joe Coen, Jack Hawkins, James Staddon and Annabel Topham. The play closed on January 15, 2011. The play reopened January 31, 2018 with its last show being performed July 21, 2018. Birdsong (play) Birdsong was a 2010 adaptation of the novel of the same title by Sebastian Faulks. The text was written by Rachel Wagstaff and the premiere production was directed by Trevor Nunn. That production began previews at the Comedy Theatre in London on September 18, 2010, and opened on September 28, 2010. The West End stage production's cast included Ben Barnes as Stephen Wraysford, Genevieve O'Reilly
Birdsong (radio channel) until a permanent commercial channel was established on the frequency. Quentin Howard was quoted in several newspaper articles, including "The Guardian", that he did not know why "the birds have been killed", but he suspected it might be to create publicity for the new channel." Also quoted in the Daily Mail, "It's always difficult to know exactly how popular, but judging by the emails and letters from people, it really caught the imagination, like many quirky things the British public like". The article also says that Discworld author Sir Terry Pratchett was a keen listener to Radio Birdsong. Birdsong was