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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Wuthering Heights

  • 03 September 2009
  • 1 comment

Some novels lend themselves to the small screen. This isn’t one of them

Gunrush

  • 27 August 2009

Even our favourite Jersey Royal potato can’t redeem this preposterous drama

The Tudors

  • 20 August 2009
  • 1 comment

The history is plain wrong and the acting atrocious, but I’m a fan of Tudorland

Louis Theroux: the City Addicted to Crystal Meth

  • 13 August 2009

After so many years as a documentary-maker, can Theroux really be this naive?

Single-Handed

  • 06 August 2009
  • 1 comment

Tourist-board myths about rural Ireland are exploded by this murky crime drama

The Scandalous Adventures of Lord Byron

  • 30 July 2009
  • 1 comment

Are we really only capable of viewing history through the prism of “celebrity”

Desperate Romantics

  • 23 July 2009
  • 1 comment

Sex scenes involving the Pre-Raphaelites and their groupies are no turn-on at all

Freefall

  • 16 July 2009

A moving drama gives tumbling financial dominoes a human face

Getting On

  • 09 July 2009

An edgy new sitcom casts an unflinching eye on how society treats the elderly

Revelations: How to Find God

  • 02 July 2009
  • 2 comments

Jon Ronson rather breezed through his sojourn among the spiritually eager

Green heroes

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Heroes

Green villains

The top ten

20 green heroes and villains: Villains

Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

The NS Interview: Omar Bin Laden

What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

A Serious Man (15)

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