Mackenzie Crook
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The Age of Static: Can we really understand a country by its TV?
- Books
- December 10, 2020, 06:00
“Via television it is possible to construct an illuminating alternative history of the last two decades,” promises Phil Harrison in his introduction t(...)

Mackenzie Crook as Worzel Gummidge: ‘A lot of things don’t add up’
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 21, 2019, 05:00
Eighteen years ago, Mackenzie Crook first arrived on our screens in an ill-fitting suit as Gareth Keenan, the assistant (to the) regional manager in T(...)

The Office: It wasn’t a plan, here’s how we get famous. It was never that
- Film
- March 6, 2019, 05:00
There’s no missing Stephen Merchant. When The Office, which he co-wrote with Ricky Gervais, first arrived on BBC2 he was, to most viewers, no more tha(...)

Britannia: A half-baked substitute for Game of Thrones
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 18, 2018
As with any finite resource, the world has already begun to worry about what will happen when we run out of Game of Thrones. The question clearly trou(...)

You hear David Morrissey before you see him: his low, slow, booming voice is clearly an actor’s projection, speaking of Rada training and a theatre ca(...)

Children’s Books: Still capturing the castle – and teenage readers – 65 years on
- Books
- November 30, 2013, 01:00
Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, first published 65 years ago, remains one of the most acute and entertaining fictional portrayals of young adultho(...)