Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1990) [2 of 3]

Episode 2 (17 Jan. 1990) : Jess is now 16 and her life is about to change forever. She meets and falls in love with Melanie, who converts to the Pentecostal faith so that she can be with Jess. Mother begins to suspect that the Devil is within, and subjects Jess a terrifying ritual of exorcism.

'Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit' is a 1990 television drama, directed by Beeban Kidron. Jeanette Winterson wrote the screenplay, adapting her semi-autobiographical first novel of the same name (published 1985).

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 was directed by Beeban Kidron and stars Charlotte Coleman, Geraldine McEwan, Kenneth Cranham, and Cathryn Bradshaw. The opening theme is by Rachel Portman.