Birdsong

This Is Thomas - 'I Was Rescued'

The Huffington Post UK | Caroline Frost | Posted 16.05.2012 | UK Entertainment

"I was 13 when I got the role, just thought it was going to be another British film." Thomas Turgoose is the deceptively cherubic-looking actor at ...

Caroline Frost

Birdsong Review: 'The Somme Looked Like A Greek Holiday Island'

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 30.03.2012 | UK Entertainment

Last week saw Stephen Wraysford's life divided into present and past, the horror of the trenches and the romance of an illicit affair with married Isa...

TV For The Weekend: Familiar Face In Midwife

The Huffington Post UK | Caroline Frost | Posted 27.01.2012 | UK Entertainment

Here are our picks of what's on the box for the weekend: Friday Room 101 - 8.30pm, BBC1 This series has been given a breath of fresh air with i...

Form is Temporary, Class is Permanent

Hugh Salmon | Posted 25.03.2012 | Home
Hugh Salmon

"Form is temporary. Class is permanent." This phrase, heard most often in my life in a cricketing context, came to mind today as I was helping to judge the BMS Seasonal Book Marketing Awards (a much more modest event than yesterday's Costa Book Awards, won by Andrew Miller's novel Pure).

Too Sexy For TV?

WENN | Posted 24.01.2012 | UK Entertainment

Eddie Redmayne and Clemence Poesy have courted controversy with their new TV drama Birdsong - the broadcasting watchdog has received a slew of complai...

BBC Birdsong With an Open Mouth and the Wrong Bird

Max Atkinson | Posted 24.03.2012 | UK Entertainment
Max Atkinson

Last night, Mary Ann Sieghart (@MASieghart) tweeted 'Does this actor in #Birdsong have any look other than a long meaningful one? I knew exactly what ...

Caroline Frost

Birdsong Review: 'The Heart Is Always Somewhere Else'

HuffingtonPost.com | Caroline Frost | Posted 23.03.2012 | UK Entertainment

At one point in the mid-1990s, it seemed you couldn’t squeeze onto the tube for copies of Birdsong being sniffed over by Sebastian Faulks' legions o...

BBC One's Birdsong - A Preview

Charlotte Skeoch | Posted 21.03.2012 | UK Entertainment
Charlotte Skeoch

If Abi Morgan isn't sat in a doctor's surgery with multiple strain disorder in her typing fingers in 2012 I will eat a script. With two award-winning films (Shame and The Iron Lady) and BBC series The Hour already under her belt, you'd have thought Morgan would be more than happy to kick back and bask in the glory of her media accolades.

TV For The Weekend: Birdsong Finally Makes It To Screen

The Huffington Post UK | Caroline Frost | Posted 20.01.2012 | UK Entertainment

Obviously, we're missing Sherlock already, it's a given. But, that aside, it's a stonking weekend of telly - with Danish political skullduggery, warti...