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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

The Tourist, BBC One review - gripping Outback thriller from the Williams brothers

Sunday, 02 January 2022 Read more...

A Very British Scandal, BBC One review - the wild life and times of the Duchess of Argyll

Monday, 27 December 2021 Read more...

The Amazing Mr Blunden, Sky Max / The Mezzotint, BBC Two reviews - blundering Blunden eclipsed by M R James

Friday, 24 December 2021 Read more...

The Girl Before, BBC One review - high-tech dream home contains many a heartache

Monday, 20 December 2021 Read more...

Landscapers, Sky Atlantic review - Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star as a pair of convicted killers

Wednesday, 08 December 2021 Read more...

You Don't Know Me, BBC One review - true love meets inner-city crime wave

Tuesday, 07 December 2021 Read more...

Hellbound, Netflix review - supernatural assassins usher in an age of terror

Friday, 03 December 2021 Read more...

The Unforgivable review - Sandra Bullock gets stuck in a doom-struck rut

Saturday, 27 November 2021 Read more...

The Beatles: Get Back, Disney+ review - 1969 revisited in Peter Jackson's three-part documentary

Thursday, 25 November 2021 Read more...

Dopesick, Disney+ review - the harrowing inside story of America's OxyContin scandal

Saturday, 20 November 2021 Read more...

Bruised review - Halle Berry takes the blows and does it her way

Thursday, 18 November 2021 Read more...

Showtrial, BBC One review - drama a cut above the rest

Monday, 15 November 2021 Read more...

Dalgliesh, Channel 5 review - doleful detective fails to fire on all cylinders

Saturday, 13 November 2021 Read more...

Temple, Series 2, Sky Max review - more calamitous adventures of rogue surgeon Daniel Milton

Friday, 05 November 2021 Read more...

Shetland, Series 6, BBC One review - too many cooks and too many crooks

Thursday, 04 November 2021 Read more...

Invasion, Apple TV+ review - sci-fi epic or a pile of space junk?

Tuesday, 26 October 2021 Read more...

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Sir Brian Clarke (1953-2025) - a personal tribute

Brian Clarke died on 1 July 2025, after a long illness. He was one of the most original British artists of our time – wide-ranging, ground-...

Album: The Near Jazz Experience - Tritone

As the name suggests, the Near Jazz Experience owe a huge musical debt to jazz, but that’s not the full story by any means. For a start, the...

Music Reissues Weekly: Beggars Arkive - Gary Numan's 19...

Tubeway Army’s “Are ‘Friends’ Electric” hit the top of the UK single’s chart in the last week of June 1979. It stayed there for four weeks. Its...

The Other Way Around review - teasing Spanish study of a bre...

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Album: Wet Leg - moisturizer

War, pestilence, famine, death. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had my fill of them all. So what better time to visit the genuinely sunny uplands...

Nye, National Theatre review - Michael Sheen's full-blo...

The National Health Service was established 77 years ago this month. Resident doctors are about to strike for more pay, long waiting lists for...

Emily Kam Kngwarray, Tate Modern review - glimpses of anothe...

It took until the last room of her exhibition for me to gain any real understanding of the work of...