Series · 1990–1990

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Name: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Director: Beeban Kidron
Genre: Drama
Released: 1990-01-10
Rating: 6.6

1 season · 3 episodes

Drama

6.627
ratings

Seven-year-old Jess is removed from her peculiar Pentecostal home and sent to school.

Episodes

0 of 3 episodes watchedSign in to track episodes

Cast

Charlotte Coleman

Jess

Geraldine McEwan

Mother

Emily Aston

Small Jess

Kenneth Cranham

Pastor Finch

Elizabeth Spriggs

May

Cathryn Bradshaw

Melanie

Celia Imrie

Miss Jewsbury

Freda Dowie

Mrs Green

Barbara Hicks

Cissy

David Thewlis

Doctor

Pam Ferris

Mrs Arkwright

M

Margery Withers

Elsie

P

Peter Gordon

William

T

Tamar Swade

Church Pianist

Crew

Director: Beeban Kidron
Producer: Phillippa Giles
Writer: Jeanette Winterson
Editor: John Strickland
Composer: Rachel Portman

Details

Networks: BBC Two
Languages: English
First aired: January 10, 1990
Status: Ended
Episode runtime: 55 min

Themes

christianityenglandbased on novel or book1970sfamily relationshipscoming of agelgbtlgbt teenwoman directorpentecostalismadopted daughter

More Like This

The Fosters

2013

Anne with an E

2017

Greenleaf

2016

Sense and Sensibility

2008

David Copperfield

1999

Pride and Prejudice

1995

Parenthood

2010

Life Unexpected

2010

Brothers and Sisters

2006

Road to Avonlea

1990

Tyler Perry's The Oval

2019

Offspring

2010