Woman's Hour Drama - The Color Purple - Episode 2

Dramatisation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, set in the Deep South in the interwar years. Celie is at the mercy of Mister, her cruel husband. Harpo, Mister's son, meets and marries the feisty and formidable Sofia Celie ...... Nadine Marshall Mister ...... Eammon Walker Shug Avery ...... Nina Sosanya Harpo ...... OT Fagbenle Sofia ...... Petra Letang Kate ...... Lorraine Burroughs Dramatised by Pat Cumper Directed by Pauline Harris.