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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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

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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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