Birdsong - Two-part television drama

Birdsong is a two-part television drama, based on the 1993 war novel Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks.

The story is told in flashbacks, with Stephen Wraysford's experiences in World War I alternating with his memories of his affair with Isabelle Azaire a young married woman whom he met before the war when he was staying in her husband's house to learn about business.

Stephen and Isabelle run away together when their affair is discovered by her husband, but she leaves Stephen after a short time.

Stephen recalls these events when he is badly wounded as a result of an encounter with German sappers when he and his own men accompany the British tunnellers of the Royal Engineers underground.

Left for dead, he is discovered and saved by Jack Firebrace a working-class man with whom Stephen has previously felt little empathy.