I'm so happy to see Shush! back on Radio 4.
Written by Rebecca Front and Morwenna Banks, it's set in a library, with two mad librarians and revels in nonsense.
The original starting point of Series 1 explored the library being under threat of closure, but it kindled into something more interesting when we learnt that Alice, played by Rebecca Front, was a child prodigy who had a nervous breakdown, and a budding romance grew between her and the ineffectual Simon, the man asked to review the library for closure.
It's almost recklessly silly, and I wonder if that's the confidence of these experienced comediennes coming through. I think a newer writer would balk at the idea of being so free and silly, and risk losing a future commission.
One particularly absurd moment in series 1 occurred when Alice and Simon ended up both naked and oiled on the floor by accident (yet NOT romantically), which now series 2 rather dementedly wants to repeat every episode.
It's mad but I love it.
Snoo: Alice, that's not like you - you're normanly such a social butterfly.
Alice: Did you just say normanly?
Snoo: Did I say what?
Alice: Did you say normanly instead of normally?
Snoo: I don't think so. I pronounce it the same way you do.
Alice: Which way is that?
Snoo: Perfectly normanly.
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