‘Birdsong’: Episode 2 review
For a drama about war, a surprising amount of dying happens quietly off-screen in the concluding part of Philip Martin’s adaptation of Birdsong, to devastating effect.
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For a drama about war, a surprising amount of dying happens quietly off-screen in the concluding part of Philip Martin’s adaptation of Birdsong, to devastating effect.
So far this is a wonderful take on a novel that has proved notoriously hard to adapt to the screen since its publication in 1993.
Yesterday we went along to the BAFTA screening of BBC One’s upcoming First World War epic to see what she and director Philip Martin have made of Faulks’ elusive narrative.