Birdsong (TV serial) Birdsong (TV serial) Birdsong is a two-part British 2012 television drama, based on the 1993 war novel "Birdsong" by Sebastian Faulks. It stars Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Wraysford and Clémence Poésy as Isabelle Azaire and was directed by Philip Martin based on a screenplay by Abi Morgan. The adaptation was produced by Working Title Films for the BBC and PBS's "Masterpiece". It premiered in January 2012 in the United Kingdom and in April 2012 in the United States. The television adaptation differs from the novel in many respects, completely omitting the section set in the 1970s. The story is told
Birdsong (novel) human endurance" and explore the effect of carnage on the psyche. A reviewer for "Kirkus Reviews" also highlighted this theme, writing that "the war, here, is Faulks's real subject, his stories of destroyed lives, however wrenching, only throwing its horror into greater relief and making it the more unbearable". The contemporary historian Simon Wessley describes the novel, alongside Barker's "Regeneration", as an exemplar of contemporary fiction which uses the experience of the World War I trenches to examine more contemporary understandings of PTSD. De Groot argues that this reinvestigation of a traumatic history mirrors a growing interest among both literary