Masterpiece: Birdsong: Episode 1

In 1910, Englishman Stephen Wraysford goes to France to study textile manufacturing and falls in love with a factory owner's bewitching wife, Isabelle. Amid the shellfire of the Western Front in 1916, his memories of the past haunt him. Eddie Redmayne stars as Stephen Wraysford, whose pre-war affair with Isabelle Azaire (Clemence Poesy) has an enduring effect on him as he fights in the trenches.

PBS | April 22, 2012