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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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TV and Radio
Meet the millionaire tramps
28 May 2007

Watching the rich play homeless for the cameras is a depressing spectacle

Filthy Rich and

TV and Radio
A low-budget love affair
21 May 2007

Was du Maurier's sexuality really the most important thing about her?

Daphne, BBC

TV and Radio
Journeys with a camera
14 May 2007

Jonathan Meades is irritating, but this is a ravishing, quirky travel documentary

Jonathan

Film
The real price of cheap food
07 May 2007

A moving film uncovers the rural world abandoned by new Labour

The Lie of the Land

TV and Radio
This diary looks good on paper
30 April 2007

Despite its best efforts, BBC4 proves that a comic classic is impossible to film

The Diary

TV and Radio
Fighting a losing battle
23 April 2007

Tony Marchant's scathing portrait of British troops in Iraq was unjust

The Mark of Cain

TV and Radio
Modern life is rubbish
16 April 2007

Goodbye to a series which asked: have things improved since the 1970s?

Life on Mars

TV and Radio
Private moments on display
09 April 2007

Celebrity therapy sessions may be entertaining, but are a shabby enterprise

Shrink Rap

TV and Radio
All work and no play
02 April 2007

John Simm shines as Vincent Van Gogh in an otherwise dull dramatisation

The Yellow House

TV and Radio
Reader, it's unfeasible
26 March 2007

Star casting and chasing after ratings neuter a complex Jane Austen story

Mansfield Park

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