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Adam Sweeting

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Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One)

Articles By Adam Sweeting

Neil Young: Coastal review - the old campaigner gets back on the trail

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Your Friends & Neighbors, Apple TV+ review - in every dream home a heartache

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The Amateur review - revenge of the nerd

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MobLand, Paramount+ review - more guns, goons and gangsters from Guy Ritchie

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This City is Ours, BBC One review - civil war rocks family cocaine racket

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The Alto Knights review - double dose of De Niro doesn't hit the spot

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Adolescence, Netflix review - Stephen Graham battles the phantom menace of the internet

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Black Bag review - lies, spies and unpleasant surprises

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Drive to Survive, Season 7, Netflix review - speed, scandal and skulduggery in the pitlane

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A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, ITV1 review - powerful dramatisation of the 1955 case that shocked the public

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Bergerac, U&Drama review - the Jersey 'tec is born again after 34 years

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A Thousand Blows, Disney+ review - Peaky Blinders comes to Ripper Street?

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Zero Day, Netflix review - can ex-President Robert De Niro save the Land of the Free?

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Hacks, Season 3, NOW review - acerbic showbiz comedy keeps up the good work

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Surviving Black Hawk Down, Netflix review - the real story behind Ridley Scott's Oscar-winner

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Vietnam: The War That Changed America, Apple TV+ review - painful and poignant stories from a terrible conflict

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