6.4 /10 1 Votes
5.1/10 TV Country of origin UK | 7.8/10 IMDb No. of episodes 3 First episode date 10 January 1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Charlotte ColemanGeraldine McEwanKenneth CranhamCathryn Bradshaw Initial release 10 January 1990 (United Kingdom) Cast Similar Great Moments in Aviation, The Short & Curlies, Life Is Sweet, Hamilton Mattress, The Singing Detective | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit was a 1990 BBC television drama, directed by Beeban Kidron. Jeanette Winterson wrote the screenplay, adapting her semi-autobiographical first novel of the same name (published 1985). The BBC produced and screened three episodes, running to a total of 2 hours and 45 minutes. The series was released on DVD in 2005.
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The series won the BAFTA award for Best Drama.
Review oranges are not the only fruit by jeanette winterson
Storyline
Charlotte Coleman starred as Jess, a girl growing up in a Pentecostal evangelical household in Accrington, Lancashire, England in the 1970s, who comes to understand that she is a lesbian. The allegorical fairytales that are woven into the novel do not appear on the screen. Miss Jewsbury's love-making with the underage Jess, which appears in the novel, was also excluded. Even with these cuts the series caused controversy when shown due to the remaining lesbian sex scenes and its portrayal of the Elim Pentecostal faith.
Cast
Awards
The series won the BAFTA award for Best Drama.
In 2010, The Guardian ranked the serial at number 8 in their list of "The Top 50 TV Dramas of All Time".