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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.

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In Treatment
08 October 2009

Shot from the therapist’s couch, this drama has issues

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Electric Dreams
01 October 2009

Why do we buy so much? Because we're greedy

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The South Bank Show
24 September 2009

Melvyn may be a grinning ninny, but I'll miss him

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Design for Life
17 September 2009

What makes good design? Don’t expect this French pseud to tell you

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The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
10 September 2009

Why make a drama out of a crisis when a documentary captures it better?

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Wuthering Heights
03 September 2009

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

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Gunrush
27 August 2009

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

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The Tudors
20 August 2009

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

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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?

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Single-Handed
06 August 2009

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

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