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Tipping the Velvet (TV series)
British TV series
Tipping the Velvet is a 2002 BBC television drama serial based on the best-selling 1998 debut novel of the same name by Sarah Waters.
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It originally screened in three episodes on BBC Two and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Sally Head Productions. It stars Rachael Stirling, Keeley Hawes, and Jodhi May.
Directed by Geoffrey Sax, the novel was adapted by screenwriter Andrew Davies.
The production was made available on DVD by BBC Worldwide soon after broadcast.
Background and development
The BBC had previously aired an adaptation of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in 1990 and some scenes in other dramas, but none had been so explicit in its depiction of lesbian sex.
Sally Head Productions defended the decision to air the entire programme uncut.[1] Waters was quite surprised that the BBC chose to produce and broadcast a television adaptation that faithfully followed the relish and det