A Taste Of Honey

One of the original kitchen-sink British dramas of the 1960s, A Taste of Honey grabbed several bulls by the horns - domestic strife, sex, race, pregnancy and homosexuality - and produced a gritty and powerful story about the life of a working class girl from 'up north'.

Rita Tushingham plays Jo, who leaves home after her alcoholic mother marries a wrong 'un. She moves in with a gay colleague, has an ill-advised one night stand with a vanishing black sailor, and ends up in the family way.

Though it sounds depressing A Taste Of Honey was a revolutionary British film which gained critical acclaim and widespread popularity, along with the movies Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.

Rita Tushingham's performance was so powerful that she was given the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Watch our interview feature with Rita here.