![]() ![]() "Framing Experience: Case Studies in the Reception of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" Screen No. In 2010, The Guardian ranked the serial at number 8 in their list of "The Top 50 TV Dramas of All Time". ![]() In 1991, via the PBS network, the series won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding TV Movie or Limited Series. The series won the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series or Serial. 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. Miss Jewsbury's love-making with the underage Jess, which appears in the novel, was also excluded. The allegorical fairytales that are woven into the novel do not appear on the screen. The series won the BAFTA award for Best Drama Series or Serial.Ĭharlotte 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 BBC produced and screened three episodes, running to a total of 2 hours and 45 minutes. Jeanette Winterson wrote the screenplay, adapting her semi-autobiographical first novel of the same name (published 1985). Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a 1990 BBC television drama, directed by Beeban Kidron. ![]() Charlotte Coleman and Geraldine McEwan in Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit ![]()
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