Eddie Redmayne stars in Western Front love story

Eddie Redmayne and Clémence Poésy (right) star as young lovers brought together by love and torn apart by the First World War. Sebastian Faulks’s beloved modern classic, adapted as a two-parter by Baftawinning Abi Morgan (The Hour, Iron Lady), tells the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who in 1910 arrives in northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls in love with Isabelle. They begin an illicit affair, with huge consequences for them both. Years later in 1916, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love, and is haunted by memories. BritBox, from Thursday