Thriller mystery: cover star Barr's drama silenced

Cathy Reay

The BBC has announced that the screening date for their upcoming drama The Silence has been put back to ‘after the World Cup’.

The Silence is a four part thriller featuring Disability Now’s May cover star Genevieve Barr as a young hearing-impaired girl who witnesses a crime. As reported in our most recent issue, the first episode was due to air on Monday 10th May with a further three episodes in following weeks.

But in a surprise announcement, the corporation has pushed transmission back to later in the year.

A BBC spokeswoman said that rescheduling is a regular occurrence in programming and that the drama will air sometime in the summer of 2010. An official start date has yet to be confirmed.