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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The past in reconstruction

  • 13 November 2008

Why spice up history? Secret Soviet deals with the Nazis is fascinating enough World War II: Behind Closed Doors BBC2

This is anything but escapism

  • 06 November 2008
  • 2 comments

A timely adaptation of Dickens is a metaphor for the credit card age Little Dorrit BBC1

The John and Pauline show

  • 30 October 2008
  • 2 comments

An invitation to laugh at the Prescotts is motivated by plain old snobbery Prescott: the Class System and Me BBC2

An old-fashioned misery memoir

  • 23 October 2008

A study of Victoria's melancholy youth puts clever women on our screens again Timewatch: Young Victoria BBC2

On the road to nowhere

  • 16 October 2008
  • 4 comments

If nothing else, Fry's ramble proves that class is alive and kicking in the US Stephen Fry in America BBC1

Nothing new under the sun

  • 09 October 2008

This comedy-drama aims for warmth but settles for warmed-over gags Sunshine BBC1

What does it mean to be free?

  • 02 October 2008

The life of America's elusive Founding Father provides a compelling narrative John Adams More4

Values and the market

  • 25 September 2008

Has money stripped art of all meaning? Yes, argues the sage Robert Hughes Mona Lisa Curse Channel 4

Family fortunes

  • 18 September 2008

Can the revival of this fly-on-the-wall classic succeed in the 21st century? The Family Channel 4

The same old story

  • 11 September 2008

This tale of a twin towers fraudster is a fascinating one, but it's been told before Cutting Edge: the 9/11 Faker Channel 4

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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