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Birdsong Premiered on BBC One on January 22, 2012

Sebastian Faulks’ epic love story set against the First World War, which became a modern classic when it was published in 1993, is adapted for the screen for the first time by Abi Morgan.

The action of the two part serial moves between 1910 and 1916, telling the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters.

Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. As he battles amidst the blood and gore of the trenches he meets Jack Firebrace, a tunneller who unexpectedly helps him endure the ravages of war and enables him to make peace with his feelings for Isabelle.

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That was tragic when the soldier was checking the targets he got caught by a bomb but Stephen staying by his side until he died was nice and it was obvious his affair with Isabelle would have huge consequences for them both but being left for dead with all the over soldiers was strange

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Stephen unexpectedly meeting Isabelle again and finding out she had been injured and returned to her husband was a surprise, he and his men were preparing for the major offensive at the Somme but the battle was devastating with so many dying as they advanced and what made things worse they had supposed to of cleared the way with the bombing raid. Shooting the soldier when he asked him to was the right thing to do with his chest wide open, Stephen finding out two years later that Isabelle had died was tragic but Isabelle's sister Jeanne admits the secret which Isabelle had kept hidden from him that he had a 7 year old daughter was a real shock to him

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