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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

Steve McQueen: The Lost Movie, Sky Documentaries review - the classic motor racing film that never was

Wednesday, 06 January 2021 Read more...

The Great, Channel 4 review - Russian history gets a whirl in the fictional blender

Monday, 04 January 2021 Read more...

Bridgerton, Netflix review - bodice-ripper cliches recycled in Regency romp

Friday, 25 December 2020 Read more...

All Creatures Great and Small: Christmas Special, Channel 5 review - big and little dramas in the Dales

Wednesday, 23 December 2020 Read more...

Let Him Go review - melancholy family drama morphs into ferocious thriller

Thursday, 17 December 2020 Read more...

Wonder Woman 1984 review - be careful what you wish for

Wednesday, 16 December 2020 Read more...

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

Saturday, 12 December 2020 Read more...

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

Friday, 11 December 2020 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 08 December 2020 Read more...

Host review - Zoom seance triggers unspeakable consequences

Saturday, 05 December 2020 Read more...

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

Friday, 04 December 2020 Read more...

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

Thursday, 03 December 2020 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 01 December 2020 Read more...

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

Monday, 30 November 2020 Read more...

Possessor review - death by virtual reality

Thursday, 26 November 2020 Read more...

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

Thursday, 19 November 2020 Read more...

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The Buxton International Festival this year was lavish in its smaller-scale productions in addition to Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, the...

Classical CDs: Hens, Hamburg and handmaids

 

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Eddie Pepitone, Special review - return of the curmudgeon

There aren’t many comics like Eddie Pepitone any more – the veteran comic’s shtick harks to back an earlier age, pre-suitable for TV...

Album: Indigo de Souza - Precipice

Indigo de Souza, a singer from North Carolina, has established some reputation, mostly in the States, for combining...

Dying review - they fuck you up, your mum and dad

Despite the title of Matthias Glasner’s award-winning drama, and the death that swirls around its characters, dying isn’t really its subject, but...

Album: Mádé Kuti - Chapter 1: Where Does Happiness Come From...

There can be few musicians on the planet from a more storied musical dynasty than Mádé Kuti. He is the son of Femi, the grandson of Fela. He grew...