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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

Mosul, Netflix review - gruelling story of Iraq's Nineveh SWAT team

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Tin Star: Liverpool, Sky Atlantic review - massed mayhem on Merseyside

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Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years, ITV review - inside story of the world's longest-running TV soap

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Host review - Zoom seance triggers unspeakable consequences

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The Dambusters, Channel 5 review - yet another telling of the Bouncing Bomb story

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County Lines review - a scary descent into drug-dealer purgatory

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The Undoing, Series Finale, Sky Atlantic review - bluff and double-bluff as the truth is revealed

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Small Axe: Red, White and Blue, BBC One review - sobering real-life story of police officer Leroy Logan

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Possessor review - death by virtual reality

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The Good Lord Bird, Sky Atlantic review - picaresque account of the myth of John Brown

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Offended by Irvine Welsh, Sky Arts review - are we seeing the end of free speech?

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The Crown, Season 4, Netflix review - royalty rocked by personal and political turbulence

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theartsdesk Q&A: screenwriter Jed Mercurio

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The Queen's Gambit, Netflix review - chess prodigy's story makes brilliant television

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The Sister, ITV review - half-baked dramatisation of esteemed novel

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The Undoing, Sky Atlantic review - trouble in paradise for gilded Manhattan couple

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Minority Report, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre review - ill-judg...

Towards the end of David Haig’s new adaptation of Philip...

Mitski, Usher Hall, Edinburgh review - cool and quirky, yet...

It was her 2018 album Be the Cowboy which saw Mitski propelled to stardom status. Laurel Hell, which followed in 2022...

Album: EYE - Dark Light

Skirting along the peripheries of doom metal,...

Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), Criterion Thea...

Small-scale shows, nurtured in offbeat places, are becoming all the rage in the...

Queyras, Philharmonia, Suzuki, RFH review - Romantic journey...

As he approaches his 70th birthday, Masaaki Suzuki has not just travelled into pastures new but proved himself thoroughly at home in them. The...

Nadine Shah, SWG3, Glasgow review - loudly dancing the night...

First Nadine Shah raised hopes, then dashed them. “I’ve never had a dance off onstage before,” she observed at one point, impressed by the shapes...

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, Tate M...

In 1903, Wassily Kandinsky painted a figure in a blue cloak galloping across a landscape on a white horse. Several years later the name of the...

Blu-ray: The Dreamers

Isabelle (Eva Green) leans over, her long hair catches fire from a candle, and Matthew (Michael Pitt) devotedly snuffs it out. She doesn’t miss a...

Orbital, O2 Institute, Birmingham review - the techno titans...

On Friday evening, dance veterans Orbital touched down in Birmingham to celebrate two of the most significant and acclaimed albums in...

Fern Brady, Netflix Special review - sex, relationships and...

An appearance on Taskmaster and the publication of her acclaimed memoir Strong Female Character have helped propel Fern Brady...