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British TV series

Birdsong is a two-part British 2012 television drama, based on the 1993 war novelBirdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

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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.

Plot

The television adaptation differs from the novel in many respects, completely omitting the section set in the 1970s.

The story is told in flashbacks, with Stephen Wraysford's experiences in World War I alternating with his memories of his affair with Isabelle Azaire, a young married woman whom he met before the war when he was staying in her husband's house to learn about business.

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