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Charlotte Coleman and Geraldine McEwan in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Created by | Jeanette Winterson |
Directed by | Beeban Kidron |
Starring |
Charlotte Coleman Geraldine McEwan Kenneth Cranham Cathryn Bradshaw |
Opening theme | Rachel Portman |
Country of origin | UK |
No. of episodes | 3 |
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Producer(s) | Phillippa Giles |
Running time | 165 minutes |
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Original network | BBC Two |
Original release | 10 January – 24 January 1990 |
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.
The series won the BAFTA award for Best Drama.
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.
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".