Matthew Goode plays Captain Gray in this BBC mini-series.
From ‘Metro’ [Extracts] :-
Abi Morgan’s period drama Birdsong first aired in 2012, starring Eddie Redmayne and Matthew Goode.
Based on Sebastian Faulks’s novel of the same name, it follows the story of young soldier Stephen Wraysford through World War I.
Birdsong can now be watched on Netflix (Picture: BBC/Working Title)
The two-part programme covers flashbacks from Stephen’s past forbidden love affair with a French woman … and his life fighting in the horrific trenches of northern France.
Birdsong has scored an impressive 75% Rotten Tomatoes score, with one fan writing: ‘BBC’s periodic drama would seldom let you down.’
‘Beautifully crafted epilogue surrounded by carnage,’ another viewer said.
Critic Grace Dent praised: ‘Birdsong is remarkable. Unsettling, visceral, a shell-shocked fug of love, loss, then more loss, then the brink of despair, with anything left then battered and blown up again.’
The beloved period drama was created for screens by The Split’s writer Abi Morgan (Picture: BBC/Working Title)
It stars Clemence Poesy as Isabelle and Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Wraysford.
(Picture: BBC)
Meanwhile reviewer Serena Davies said: ‘The BBC, then, have done something important – they have made an elegiac, lyrical film (that is better than Spielberg’s War Horse) with which the next generation can associate the war. It aspires to the sentiments of the war poets.’
