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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

How To Blow Up a Pipeline review - can eco-terrorism be justified?

Friday, 21 April 2023 Read more...

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, ITV1 review - Agatha Christie gets a tense and twisty reworking by Hugh Laurie

Monday, 10 April 2023 Read more...

Magpie Murders, BBC One review - zinging TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's bestseller

Saturday, 08 April 2023 Read more...

Rabbit Hole, Paramount+ review - sabotage, subterfuge and corporate skulduggery

Monday, 03 April 2023 Read more...

Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy, Sky Documentaries review - a macabre slice of motor racing mythology

Saturday, 01 April 2023 Read more...

John Wick: Chapter 4 review - is this the El Cid of shoot-'em-up movies?

Saturday, 25 March 2023 Read more...

Infinity Pool review - it's like The White Lotus on bad acid

Friday, 24 March 2023 Read more...

Play Dead review - chills, thrills and stolen body parts

Thursday, 16 March 2023 Read more...

Endeavour: The Final Episode, ITV1 review - the final bow for Oxford's finest

Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Read more...

MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Netflix review - a field day for conspiracy theorists

Friday, 10 March 2023 Read more...

Daisy Jones & The 6, Amazon Prime review - hit rock'n'roll novel doesn't make great TV

Monday, 06 March 2023 Read more...

Liaison, Apple TV+ review - tangly Franglais thriller presses some hot buttons

Thursday, 02 March 2023 Read more...

Drive to Survive, Season 5, Netflix review - fly-on-the wall F1 show may need a reboot

Friday, 24 February 2023 Read more...

The Gold, BBC One review - gripping dramatisation of the 1983 Brink's-Mat bullion robbery

Tuesday, 14 February 2023 Read more...

Fauda, Season 4, Netflix review - Israeli terrorism thriller gets darker and dirtier

Saturday, 04 February 2023 Read more...

Women at War, Netflix review - contrasting stories entwine during the chaos of World War One

Thursday, 26 January 2023 Read more...

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