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Rob Cook
@therealrobcook.bsky.social
TV Historian, presenter on #TheBillPodcast, author of #CaseStudies - Making Peak Practice Series 1-3 #ComingSoon
Over on Insta, I have an account called OffPeakPractice covering the stars of #PeakPractice in other roles (ala. @offthebill.bsky.social).

Here's the Top Nine for 2025.

If you're on Insta, feel free to give it a follow 😊
January 1, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I love a bit of Instagram and here's my Top Nine for 2025 😁

Happy New Year!
January 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM
I thought the ghost of Mark McManus (the original Taggart), was in church this morning for BBC One Christmas service 🙈

(Bottom left)
December 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Merry Christmas!

I hope you all got what you asked Santa for 😁🎅🎄🎁
December 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Ever since I started my #Dangerfield (re)watch in 2022, my single memory of the series was a scene on a driving range at night. I finally reached it this week in Series 5, Episode 2 "The Long Weekend".
The idea of heading off to the driving range in the evening fascinated me as a kid! 🙈🏌‍♂️⛳️
December 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Before I hit the Christmas reads, I plumped for The Body on the Doorstep by A.J. Mackenzie, a solid historical read for autumn nights.

#booksky
December 6, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Michael Parkinson's 1981 interview with Goldie Hawn features some very tight close ups of both Goldie and Parky which feels very odd, especially compared to the other interviews in the episode with Thora Hird and John Blashford-Snell (and other editions of the era). #ThrowbackThursday
December 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Anyone read the wartime saga #Corrie books?

They're a guilty pleasure of mine 🙈
November 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
When you need to bump up your Goodreads challenge total, a couple of #DoctorWho graphic novels always help 😊 #booksky
November 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Finished watching four parter The Game this evening.
The second half was much better and pacier shown by me watching the last two episodes in as many evenings when it took me four months to get through the first two 🙈
Great to see Robson Green as the villain.
November 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Sad to hear Jack Shepherd has passed away.
He was great in Wycliffe in the 90's and I was lucky to see him on stage in Ipswich alongside Terrence Hardiman a few years back, their Q&A afterwards was an added bonus.
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It was great to read my first Rebecca Tope novel of the year recently 🙈

This moment had been prepared for as the photo had been taken last November 🙊

Do you prep book photos in advance?

#booksky #amreading
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Here's a #ThrowbackThursday post to one of my reads from earlier this summer and The Redeemer by Victoria Goldman.

This was a cracking read! 😁

#booksky @victoriagoldman.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Shaun Prendergast (Trevor Sharpe) as Carson Black in the last ever episode of Doctors - 'One Day Like This' (2024).

#PeakPractice #OffPeaks #Doctors
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Vaseem Khan's 2025 releases are The Girl In Cell A and Quantum of Menace (the first in the Q Mysteries series).

#booksky
October 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Tim Sullivan's first book in the DS Cross series is The Dentist with the most recent being The Bookseller.

The series is getting a new batch of covers coming very soon!

#booksky
October 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Last weekend at the Ipswich Book Festival, @empalmer09.bsky.social and I were also honoured to interview Vaseem Khan about his novels, including The Girl In Cell A and Quantum of Menace.
This was the first time Vaseem had seen his new Q book in hardback!

#booksky #bookfestival
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Tim Sullivan also directed some early 90's episodes of the great Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series, so I did sneak in a question about that 😉
October 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Last weekend was the first Ipswich Book Festival and @empalmer09.bsky.social and I were honoured to interview Tim Sullivan about his DS George Cross series of novels.

#bookfestival #booksky
October 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Last weekend was the first amazing Ipswich Book Festival!

@empalmer09.bsky.social and I were honoured to interview Vaseem Khan and Tim Sullivan, who were wonderful guests and gained new fans from the audiences.

#booksky #IpswichBookFestival
October 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Some of the great events coming up this coming weekend at the Ipswich Book Festival!

www.ipswichbookfestival.com

#booksky #bookfestival
September 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The amazing @empalmer09.bsky.social is on the long list for Blogger of the Year with The Book Party!

Please vote for her here:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#booksky #bookstagram
September 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I am back behind the counter at Dial Lane Books today.

We have a table full of books written by some of the great Ipswich Book Festival authors, so pop on down and have a browse!

#DialLaneBooks #independent #IpswichBookFestival #Ipswich #Suffolk #shoplocal #bookshop #bookseller #booksky
September 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Spotted on our travels yesterday - two vintage Fawlty Towers VHS tapes!
August 24, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I wanted a quick read towards the end of last week so plumped for another #Emmerdale novelisation.
A little underwhelming was this one. It felt like the scraps of un-novelised storylines were used to cobble this together.

#booksky
August 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM