before the Battle of Agincourt", while the novelist Suzanne Ruta writes that Faulks creates characters with a similar depth to those in Thomas Hardy novels. Adaptations Birdsong was adapted as a radio drama of the same title in 1997, and as a stage play in 2010. The play adaptation was first directed by Trevor Nunn at the Comedy Theatre in London. In 2012 it was adapted as a two-part television drama for the BBC. The production starred Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Wraysford and Clémence Poésy as Isabelle Azaire, and was directed by Philip Martin, based on a screenplay by Abi Morgan. The historian Edward Madigan favourably compared the television adaptation to Steven Spielberg's War Horse as a successful evocation of the experience of the World War I trenches. In both 2013 and 2014, Faulks indicated that a feature film adaptation was in development. The screenplay is by Rupert Wyatt, and the film is expected to star Nicholas Hoult. In 2020, Original Theatre produced an online film version of the novel, that featured Faulks as the narrator. References External links Discussion of the Book on the Australian Broadcasting Channels's First Tuesday show Sebastian Faulks discusses Birdsong on the BBC World Book Club 1993 British novels Novels by Sebastian Faulks Novels set in Picardy Novels set in the 1910s Novels set in the 1970s Novels set during World War I Hutchinson (publisher) books Amiens British novels adapted into plays British novels adapted into films British novels adapted into television shows