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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

Only Murders in the Building, Disney+ review - this comedy crime drama is a class act

Saturday, 19 August 2023 Read more...

Enemy of the People, Channel 4 review - murder and corruption in the age of digital media

Wednesday, 09 August 2023 Read more...

Wolf, BBC One review - a load of old...

Wednesday, 02 August 2023 Read more...

Special Ops: Lioness, Paramount+ review - high-octane female cast conducts war on terror

Wednesday, 26 July 2023 Read more...

Oppenheimer review - epic and enthralling study of 'the father of the atomic bomb'

Thursday, 20 July 2023 Read more...

World on Fire, Series 2, BBC One - return of Peter Bowker's panoramic view of World War Two

Tuesday, 18 July 2023 Read more...

Disturbing Disappearances, More4 review - headstrong 'tec tackles Pied Piper mystery

Saturday, 15 July 2023 Read more...

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, BST Hyde Park review - Saturday in the park with Bruce

Sunday, 09 July 2023 Read more...

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Season 4, Prime Video review - final outing for John Krasinski's CIA hero

Tuesday, 04 July 2023 Read more...

Hijack, Apple TV+ review - trapped at 40,000 feet with a bunch of armed thugs

Thursday, 29 June 2023 Read more...

Spiral of Lies, Channel 4 review - bodies, fibs and bad karma in Biarritz

Tuesday, 27 June 2023 Read more...

Turn of the Tide, Netflix review - cocaine madness comes to the Azores

Saturday, 24 June 2023 Read more...

No Hard Feelings review - nothing about this queasy comedy feels quite right

Thursday, 22 June 2023 Read more...

Best Interests, BBC One review - a family feels the unbearable strain of terminal illness

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 Read more...

Chevalier review - a less than extraordinary film about an extraordinary man

Friday, 09 June 2023 Read more...

Hypnotic review - a riotously enjoyable thriller

Sunday, 28 May 2023 Read more...

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Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Neil Hannon has been recording and touring as the Divine Comedy since 1989 and has tried a fair few flavours along the way, from chamber pop to...

The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly...

My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but...

Frances Wilson: Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark...

How do you tell the story of a person’s mind? In the preface to Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, published this year by...

Blu-ray: The Sons of Great Bear

Westerns had long been popular with German cinema audiences, some of the most successful being early 1960s West German adaptations of novels by...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - comedy rock band f...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for...

Tosca, Welsh National Opera review - a great company reduced...

So it’s come to this: WNO’s autumn season reduced to two operas, a Tosca borrowed from Opera North and a revival of their own Candide...

Not Your Superwoman, Bush Theatre review - powerful tribute...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully acted two-hander...

Music Reissues Weekly: Robyn - Robyn 20th-Anniversary Editio...

Sometimes, record labels don’t like what those on their roster have recorded. Such was the case with BMG Sweden and Robin Carlsson who, as Robyn,...