Woman's Hour Drama - The Help - Episode 3

Dramatisation of Kathryn Stockett's novel set in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, about three brave women who dare to cross the racial lines. Skeeter pursues her potentially explosive idea for a book about the daily lives of black maids in Jackson. But will anyone agree to be interviewed? Aibileen ...... Alibe Parsons Minny ...... Octavia Spencer Skeeter ...... Laurel Lefkow Elizabeth/Celia ...... Lydia Parker Hilly ...... Madeleine Potter Miss Walters/Mrs Phelan ...... Debora Weston Raleigh/Johnny ...... Nathan Nolan Mae Mobley ...... Edward Prout Adapted by Penny Leicester.