Saturday, 24 February 2018
930 Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
First viewed : January 1990
This was a BBC2 adaptation of the autobiographical novel by Jeanette Winterston. It's the story of a young girl Jess ( Emily Aston then Charlotte Coleman ) who is adopted by a strict Pentecostalist ( Geraldine McEwan ) in Accrington. This causes problems when she develops into a lesbian. Kenneth Cranham played the minister who arranges an exorcism for her. Celia Imrie played an older lesbian but her character was somewhat bowdlerised from the novel.
The series caused some controversy both for its lesbian sex scene ( rather tame actually ) and the portrayal of the church. Nevertheless it was showered with awards
I liked it for the Lancashire setting but did find it rather slow moving in parts.
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