By 1990, they said they do not make dramas like they used. Citing the landmark productions of the 1960s such as Cathy Come Home.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and House of Cards were both produced by the BBC in the same year.
Based on the novel by Jeanette Winterson. It opens with Jess stating that her father liked wrestling, her mother liked to wrestle.
Jess is brought up in a strict evangelical household by her strict religious mother (Geraldine McEwan) in a northern town. She has raised Jess with stories from the Bible and to protect her against satan.
Jess does not even go to school until her mother is forced to send her. It turns out that Jess is actually adopted as her natural mother strives to see her but is sent packing.
This is a terrifically atmospheric episode. The actress playing young Jess is very good. Geraldine McEwan knocks it out of the park as her mother.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and House of Cards were both produced by the BBC in the same year.
Based on the novel by Jeanette Winterson. It opens with Jess stating that her father liked wrestling, her mother liked to wrestle.
Jess is brought up in a strict evangelical household by her strict religious mother (Geraldine McEwan) in a northern town. She has raised Jess with stories from the Bible and to protect her against satan.
Jess does not even go to school until her mother is forced to send her. It turns out that Jess is actually adopted as her natural mother strives to see her but is sent packing.
This is a terrifically atmospheric episode. The actress playing young Jess is very good. Geraldine McEwan knocks it out of the park as her mother.
