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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Gone, but not forgotten

  • 09 April 2009

Northern Ireland is the backdrop for a provocative look at the politics of grief

Preaching from the choir

  • 02 April 2009

Surely the BBC doesn’t think that viewers will put up with this rubbish?

The gimmicky chef achieves a new level of attention-grabbing silliness

  • 26 March 2009

Heston’s Roman Feast Channel 4

Turn on, tune in, drop off

  • 19 March 2009
  • 1 comment

Round-the-clock reporting has not made Britain any better-informed BBC News 24 Sky News

Too much of a good thing

  • 12 March 2009

A Gavin and Stacey spin-off is long on fat jokes but short on belly laughs Horne and Corden BBC3

Darkness doesn’t always mean authenticity

  • 05 March 2009
  • 3 comments

David Peace’s Yorkshire thrillers make fantastic TV but dubious history Red Riding Channel 4

The shadows of shadows

  • 26 February 2009

Lindsay Duncan is the latest actor to portray Margaret Thatcher in drama, but the lady herself remains elusive, a mystery to us, as she was to herself

Determined not to be impressed

  • 19 February 2009

Away from politics, Paxman's bulldog interviewing style hits a wrong note The Victorians BBC1

The art of darkness

  • 12 February 2009

This compelling period piece is far more sinister than its critics have argued Mad Men BBC4

Grotesque, glorious nonsense

  • 05 February 2009

This whodunnit may not win points for originality, but it's exciting stuff Whitechapel ITV1

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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