Editing Peter Cook (section)

===Revival===
In late 1989, Cook married for the third time, to [[Malaysia]]n-born property developer Chiew Lin Chong in [[Torbay]], Devon. She provided him with some stability in his personal life, and he reduced his drinking to the extent that for a time he was [[Teetotalism|teetotal]]. He lived alone in a small 18th-century house in Perrins Walk,<!-- 51.554931, -0.178945 --> [[Hampstead]], while she kept her own property just {{convert|100|yd|-1}} away.

Cook returned to the BBC as Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling for an appearance with [[Ludovic Kennedy]] in ''A Life in Pieces''. The 12 interviews saw Sir Arthur recount his life, based on the song "[[Twelve Days of Christmas]]". Unscripted interviews with Cook as Streeb-Greebling and satirist [[Chris Morris (satirist)|Chris Morris]] were recorded in late 1993 and broadcast as ''[[Why Bother? (radio show)|Why Bother?]]'' on [[BBC Radio 3]] in 1994. Morris described them:{{blockquote|It was a very different style of improvisation from what I'd been used to, working with people like [[Steve Coogan]], [[Doon Mackichan]] and [[Rebecca Front]], because ''[[On the Hour]]'' and ''[[The Day Today]]'' were about trying to establish a character within a situation, and Cook was really doing 'knight's move' and 'double knight's move' thinking to construct jokes or ridiculous scenes flipping back on themselves, and it was amazing. I mean, I held out no great hopes that he wouldn't be a boozy old sack of lard with his hair falling out and scarcely able to get a sentence out, because he hadn't given much evidence that that wouldn't be the case. But, in fact, he stumbled in with a [[Safeway (UK)|Safeways]] bag full of Kestrel lager and loads of fags and then proceeded to skip about mentally with the agility of a grasshopper. Really quite extraordinary.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/spiggott/morris.htm |title=The Establishment – The Spiggott – Chris Morris Interview |publisher=Stabbers.truth.posiweb.net |access-date=25 July 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080908003504/http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/html/spiggott/morris.htm |archive-date=8 September 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}

On 17 December 1993, Cook appeared on ''[[Clive Anderson|Clive Anderson Talks Back]]'' as four characters – biscuit tester and alien abductee Norman House, football manager and motivational speaker Alan Latchley, judge Sir James Beauchamp, and [[rock music|rock]] legend Eric Daley. The following day, he appeared on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] performing links for ''[[Arena (British TV series)|Arena]]'''s "Radio Night". He also appeared in the 1993 Christmas special of ''[[One Foot in the Grave]]'' ("One Foot in the Algarve"), playing a muckraking [[paparazzi|tabloid photographer]]. Before the end of the following year, his mother died, and a grief-stricken Cook returned to heavy drinking. He made his last television appearance on the show ''[[Pebble Mill at One]]'' in November 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/death-of-a-slacker-1593874.html |title= Death of a slacker |date= 29 July 1995 |publisher=independent.co.uk |access-date=5 July 2022 }}</ref>