Birdsong (novel) on how the novel, like many other WWI novels, thematically focuses on the way in which the experience of trauma shapes individual psyches. Similarly, because of the parallel narratives WWI and 1970s Britain, the novel explores metahistorical questions about how to document and recover narratives about the past. Because of its genre, themes and writing style, the novel has been favourably compared to a number of other war novels, like Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and those in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy. "Birdsong" is part of a loose trilogy of novels by Sebastian Faulks, alongside "The Girl at the Lion d'Or" and
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