Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke

Rachel Cooke trained as a reporter on The Sunday Times. She is now a writer at The Observer. In the 2006 British Press Awards, she was named Interviewer of the Year.

Articles by Rachel Cooke

Results 131 to 140 of 352

Occupation

  • 18 June 2009

Someone should send Tony Blair a DVD of this superb drama about Iraq

Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire

  • 11 June 2009

Is this comic fantasy series a cult hit in the making – or just one for the nerds?

Britain's Got Talent

  • 04 June 2009

Reality television is a vessel for feelings that dare not speak their name

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

  • 28 May 2009
  • 1 comment

A certain historian needs to learn that he isn’t necessarily the main attraction

Do not adjust your set

  • 21 May 2009

Samantha Morton’s film about children in care is the latest in a string of ambitious new Channel 4 dramas. Has the broadcaster, long derided as the purveyor of trashy reality TV, cleaned up its act?

Bonding over the baroque

  • 14 May 2009

A series about the history of English music is a bit too anxious to please

Talking about a revolution

  • 07 May 2009

The tedium of the negotiating table stifles a drama about the end of apartheid

The estate we’re in

  • 30 April 2009

Executive egos tower over the listed buildings in this masterly satire

Dead on revival

  • 23 April 2009

Dated and unfunny, this is one remake of a classic Seventies sitcom too far

Thank you for sending me an angel

  • 16 April 2009

Skellig: Sky 1 The Department Store: BBC2

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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