Three Girls

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2017
Season 1
3 episodes

Crime/detective
Drama

Summary

Three-part drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale.

Episode 1: Episode 1

Summary

The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale. New to the area, Holly is keen to make friends, but finds herself drawn into a frightening world all too familiar to sexual health worker Sara. As her relationship with her family fractures, Holly unearths the courage to speak out - but will her nightmare finally end? Starring Maxine Peake and Lesley Sharp

Review

Alison Graham

A portly man known as “Daddy” takes an underage girl, Holly, into a fetid bedroom. After assiduously grooming Holly and her friends with kebabs, curries, vodka and cigarettes, he wants what he thinks is due to him: “When are you going to let me have sex with you?… I buy you things, I give you things, now it’s your turn to give something to me.” Then he rapes her.

Nicole Taylor’s devastating script, a three-part dramatisation of the Rochdale child grooming and sexual abuse scandal, is coruscating, brutal and unflinching. Holly (an extraordinary performance from Molly Windsor), after a falling out with her parents, is vulnerable and easy prey for the mainly British-Pakistani men who pass her and their other victims around like lumps of meat.

Her only ally is sexual health worker Sara Rowbotham (Maxine Peake), who builds up a picture of what the uninterested police call a “lifestyle choice”. It’s anything but.

How to watch

Next showing

There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show. But it is available via the streaming provider below.

Streaming

BBC iPlayer

Details

Released on

2017-05-16

Languages

English

Formats

Colour

Credits

Cast

rolenameSara RowbothamMaxine PeakeDC Margaret OliverLesley SharpLorna BowenLisa RileyNazir AfzalAce BhattiJim WinshawPaul KayeJulie WinshawJill HalfpennyAmber BowenRia ZmitrowiczHolly WinshawMolly WindsorRuby BowenLiv HillDC Jack HarropRupert ProcterPC Richard BryanRoss AndersonElliot YoungBrian FletcherChefQas HamidImmyAntonio AakeelLuke YoungMark BeswickZoeEllie LightfootPinoAdam KarimTariqWasim ZakirDaddySimon NagraBoy at ClinicOliver RushtonYvonneNaomi RadcliffeArresting police officerDean AshtonRachel WinshawBo BragasonBillyZee SulleymanCar ZeroSatnam BhogalSajHaider Mohammed JavedTigerTebraiz ShahzadSexual Health WorkerMegan HarrisDC MilneAdrian HarrisJillian MenziesJackie CluneCaroline WallaceMaggie ServiceGCSE TeacherAlison ReidPirateJonas Khan

Crew

rolenameDirectorPhilippa LowthorpeProducerSimon LewisExecutive producerSusan HoggExecutive producerHilary SalmonWriterNicole TaylorExecutive producerLucy Richer

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Episode 1

Summary

The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale. New to the area, Holly is keen to make friends, but finds herself drawn into a frightening world all too familiar to sexual health worker Sara. As her relationship with her family fractures, Holly unearths the courage to speak out - but will her nightmare finally end? Starring Maxine Peake and Lesley Sharp

Review

Alison Graham

A portly man known as “Daddy” takes an underage girl, Holly, into a fetid bedroom. After assiduously grooming Holly and her friends with kebabs, curries, vodka and cigarettes, he wants what he thinks is due to him: “When are you going to let me have sex with you?… I buy you things, I give you things, now it’s your turn to give something to me.” Then he rapes her.

Nicole Taylor’s devastating script, a three-part dramatisation of the Rochdale child grooming and sexual abuse scandal, is coruscating, brutal and unflinching. Holly (an extraordinary performance from Molly Windsor), after a falling out with her parents, is vulnerable and easy prey for the mainly British-Pakistani men who pass her and their other victims around like lumps of meat.

Her only ally is sexual health worker Sara Rowbotham (Maxine Peake), who builds up a picture of what the uninterested police call a “lifestyle choice”. It’s anything but.

How to watch

Next showing

There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show. But it is available via the streaming provider below.

Streaming
- BBC iPlayer
Details

Released on

2017-05-16

Languages

English

Formats

Colour

Credits

Cast

rolenameSara RowbothamMaxine PeakeDC Margaret OliverLesley SharpLorna BowenLisa RileyNazir AfzalAce BhattiJim WinshawPaul KayeJulie WinshawJill HalfpennyAmber BowenRia ZmitrowiczHolly WinshawMolly WindsorRuby BowenLiv HillDC Jack HarropRupert ProcterPC Richard BryanRoss AndersonElliot YoungBrian FletcherChefQas HamidImmyAntonio AakeelLuke YoungMark BeswickZoeEllie LightfootPinoAdam KarimTariqWasim ZakirDaddySimon NagraBoy at ClinicOliver RushtonYvonneNaomi RadcliffeArresting police officerDean AshtonRachel WinshawBo BragasonBillyZee SulleymanCar ZeroSatnam BhogalSajHaider Mohammed JavedTigerTebraiz ShahzadSexual Health WorkerMegan HarrisDC MilneAdrian HarrisJillian MenziesJackie CluneCaroline WallaceMaggie ServiceGCSE TeacherAlison ReidPirateJonas Khan

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Crew

rolenameDirectorPhilippa LowthorpeProducerSimon LewisExecutive producerSusan HoggExecutive producerHilary SalmonWriterNicole TaylorExecutive producerLucy Richer

Show more