Kira Cochrane
Executive Editor, Features at The Guardian
Executive editor, Features, The Guardian, editing G2. Author of books including Modern Women and All the Rebel Women.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Barbara Speed |Catherine Shoard |Hollie Richardson |Anne Billson |Kira Cochrane |Gwilym Mumford | +2 more
The dropped toy bunnyI managed to cry before the opening titles, at a scene so innocuous that I must have disconcerted those around me. Bridget picks up her daughter’s stuffed rabbit, sniffs it, says “It stinks!”, then kisses it anyway. It hints at the radical self-acceptance our widowed protagonist seems determined to instil in her children – but it’s also testament to the amount of Bridget lore heaped into this film.
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Dec 3, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Kira Cochrane
By the third UK lockdown, Tori Amos was wondering if she would ever play live again. At her remote house in Cornwall, where we meet, she began mourning the loss of connection with her audience. When the US singer and songwriter is on tour, giving her famously passionate performances, hundreds of letters pour in every day, requesting songs. “I try to read as many as I can, and we change the show every night, except the bookends.
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Oct 24, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Kira Cochrane
The gym where Rebecca Roberts trains is in an unremarkable industrial unit in St Helens, Merseyside. The room is small, the ceiling low, the music driving, the equipment incongruously large. There are the 115kg (253lb) logs she presses over her head and the atlas stones she heaves on to plinths. The heaviest stone she has lifted is 180kg. There are the frames she uses to practise hauling cars, whether a Ford Fiesta or her Honda CR-V.
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