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 171 to 180 of 352

The plot thickens

  • 04 September 2008
  • 2 comments

This dumbed-down take on a literary classic patronises its female audience Lost in Austen ITV1

Dramedy by numbers

  • 28 August 2008

A clichéd comedy about grown-ups and suicide is no laughing matter Mutual Friends BBC1

You're not who we think you are

  • 21 August 2008
  • 3 comments

Chinks in Johnson's charm armoury appear in a look at his colourful ancestry Who Do You Think You Are? BBC1

The feel of what's real

  • 14 August 2008

A drum'n'bass star saves this baton camp from being a dead loss Maestro BBC2

A very public act of charity

  • 07 August 2008

There's something suspect about this reality show that promotes giving The Secret Millionaire Channel 4

Outrageous fortune

  • 31 July 2008
  • 1 comment

Inspired drama gives a Shakespearean dimension to a tale of Iraq's first family House of Saddam BBC2

Three cheers for the X factor

  • 24 July 2008
  • 4 comments

What makes a man gay? The question, mercifully, is too complex to answer The Making of Me BBC1

Lost in translation

  • 17 July 2008
  • 2 comments

Eighty minutes doesn't do justice to one of the world's seminal texts The Quran Channel 4

The call of the weird

  • 10 July 2008
  • 1 comment

Knights Templar, comedy accents and giant snails? It must be silly season Bonekickers BBC1 Lab Rats BBC2

All the wrong lines

  • 03 July 2008
  • 2 comments

Fine performances are wasted on a script that tries too hard to be "relevant" Criminal Justice BBC1

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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