Musings of a Twenty Something Teenager: War, Love, History & A Beautiful Gentleman...

Enter another superb BBC British period drama, along with new man of the minute Eddie Redmayne as the lead role. I know this is a few days late, but WOW the BBC have done good again. Birdsong, like many other English Literature A-Level students across the country became the bane of their lives. But for me it was the complete opposite. I loved every minute of it. In fact when I had to read it for the first time 6 years ago I utterly fell in love with it, and with the main character Stephen Wraysford. From that day on I started a love affair with the author Sebastian Faulks and everything he has written.
But this is about Birdsong and the recent television adaptation

The first part of this two part mini series showed on Sunday night, and some may say that it was slow, which is was, but it was beautiful. In this episode you see the younger Stephen in Amiens when he first meets and his love affair starts with the stunning Isabelle played by Clemence Poesey. It flits between the past and the future war torn France.
The basic war plot is primarily about the tunnellers under the trenches and leads up to Stephen going underground with the men to maintain morale. They come across some German soldiers and Stephen gets shot and thought dead. The closing scenes are the most heart wrenching when everyone thinks that he is in fact dead. But hey we all know he isn't, whether you've read the book or not, because there is still another hour and half episode to go. And lets face it they cant all be flashbacks of a dead man!

Now enough of war and sadness more about the lead, Eddie Redmayne. Now isn't he a beautiful specimen of a man. Not only has he nailed the posh Englishman in Birdsong, he was also in the smash hit My Week With Marilyn, Pillars of the Earth and Tess of the D'Urbervilles. So he has pretty much covered all period acting he could.
Not only that he makes a fantastic model. Burberry have snapped him up for their new SS 12 campaign.