"Actor: Amanda Owen"

• Our Yorkshire Farm: Series 4 | DVD | (21/11/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Owen family return for a fourth series of Our Yorkshire Farm. Join shepherds Amanda, Clive, and their nine children for more adventures on their remote hill farm in the Yorkshire Dales. There are new beginnings on the horizon for the Owen family as the children take on more responsibilities, and later they decide to purchase a derelict farmhouse.br/

• Bad Girls - The Complete Series 1-8 Boxed Set | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £57.00

  There are bad girls, and then there are the girls of Larkhall women's prison.This highly acclaimed, original and controversial drama explores the never-ending conflict that occurs between the prisoners and the men and women who are paid to lock them up. Never shying from the darker side of prison life, Bad Girls also celebrates the warmth, compassion and defi ant sense of humour that can sometimes triumph even behind bars.This 28 disc set contains every episode from all eight series.

• The Rainbow | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A respectable and picturesque realisation of DH Lawrence's novel, 1989's The Rainbow is director Ken Russell's prequel to his 1969 version of Women in Love. By Russell's standards, this is a remarkably restrained treatment of Lawrence's novel, set in the Midlands in the 19th century: with its lush, rural setting and quaint bucolic soundtrack there are moments when you might imagine you're watching The Railway Children--until the sex scenes kick in, that is. Her soul infused with infinite longing by the sight of a rainbow as a child, Ursula Brangwen grows up restless at the prescribed roles set out for women in Victorian England, which are stoically endured by her mother (Glenda Jackson, who played Ursula's sister Gudrun in Women in Love). She idealises her swimming instructor--the older, more experienced Winifred (Amanda Donohoe) with whom she enjoys a passionate, borderline lesbian relationship. She becomes a schoolteacher against her parents' wishes, and takes up with Paul McGann, who is somewhat tepid as a Boer War officer. Ultimately, however, she finds all of these limitations too constraining and finally strikes out on her own in search of true spiritual and sexual freedom. On the DVD: This is a full-screen version of the film, ratio 4:3. The sound quality is fine as is the colour and sharpness, though like the film itself, not quite as ravishing as you might hope. Special features consist of a routine trailer ("She played by her passion, not by their rules") and disappointingly perfunctory "filmographies" of the director and cast: merely lists of their previous movies. --David Stubbs