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Birdsong. (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 ...
“If you can hear the birds singing, you're in the right place” - Benny Bellamacina This nice little bird is singing for you! What a talented creature it is! ...
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- Nature Soundscapes
Sep 27, 1993 · Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong is a kind of Harlequin romance with a literary slant. All the elements for pulp romance are there: "romantic" hero: soldier, refined gentleman; unhappy married woman; "romantic" locale: French suburbs, countryside; numerous, gratuitous sex scenes (I remember, horrifically, an excess of pulsating "members" and curtains of "flesh").
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Jul 29, 2014 · Relax with the pure sound of birds singing (Nightingale, Blackbird, Chaffinch, Cuckoo and others) and the view of a very calm forest river flowing through a ...
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Faulks wrote Birdsong in a study on the top floor of his brother Edward’s house in London between May 1992 and January 1993. Its provisional title was ‘Flesh and Blood’. It is dedicated to Edward Faulks. The jacket image for the hardback came from a book of paintings in the Louvre that Faulks had at home.
Birdsong: With Eddie Redmayne, Clémence Poésy, Matthew Goode, Rory Keenan. As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
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- 2012-04-22
- Drama, Romance, War
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Birdsong is a 1993 war novel and family saga by the English author Sebastian Faulks. It is Faulks's fourth novel. The plot follows two main characters living at different times: the first is Stephen Wraysford, a British soldier on the front line in Amiens during the First World War, and the second is his granddaughter, Elizabeth Benson, whose 1970s plotline follows her attempts to recover an understanding of Stephen's experience of the war.
