Birdsong
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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.
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.
Home. TV. Reviews.Already a popular novel and play, Sebastian Faulks’ “Birdsong” comes to PBS as a two-part, three-hour, stubbornly old-fashioned melodrama. A mixture of tragic romance and World War I epic, the project feels worn on the…
TV review: Birdsong; Earthflight. This article is more than 14 years old.Ah, this is what Earthflight (BBC1, Sunday) has been crying out for since it started – the how-they-did-it bit, usually a section at the end of a programme, here a…
The same man is there, no helmet, younger and more focused, less tarnished. That's how it goes in Birdsong (BBC1, Sunday); we yo-yo backwards and forwards between Claude Monet and Siegfried Sassoon. The war scenes are extraordinary – a…
