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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

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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

I just can't get you out of my head

  • 26 June 2008
  • 8 comments

For some reason, I keep imagining Jeremy Clarkson in his underpants
Top Gear
BBC2

Before the age of reality TV

  • 19 June 2008

A look back to 1988 suggests that we've lost the art of making documentaries
Afghantsi
More4

The making of Margaret

  • 12 June 2008

Did sexism help to shape Thatcher's icy persona? This drama suggests it did
Margaret Thatcher: the Long Walk to Finchley
BBC4

Who comes up with this stuff?

  • 05 June 2008
  • 7 comments

The BBC fulfils its public service remit with some truly awful programmes
This Week, Florence Nightingale
BBC1
The Culture Show, Women in BlackBBC2

The original trout pout

  • 29 May 2008

We shrug off Mary Whitehouse as a relic of the past at our own peril

Filth: the Mary Whitehouse Story
BBC2

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