Listen up: The Silence Is A Fresh Spin On An Old Formula
How does this sound for the premise of a new four-part drama: Eighteen-year old deaf girl Amelia is fitted with a cochlear implant which enables her to hear sounds for the first time. On the days she receives hearing therapy in Bristol, she stays at the chaotic family home of her aunt, uncle and three cousins. All while dealing with boys, smoking, drink and drugs.
Not quite grabbing you yet? Well how about the uncle, Jim (Douglas Henshall), being a DI on the homicide squad? And then Amelia witnessing the brutal hit-and-run murder of a policewoman? All these ingredients make up the heady mix that is episode one of BBC1’s
