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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

Inland review - a cracked mosaic of memories, impressions and lurking anxiety

Wednesday, 24 May 2023 Read more...

Ten Pound Poms, BBC One review - a new life in the Great Southern Land

Monday, 15 May 2023 Read more...

A different angle on the Anne Frank story in 'A Small Light'

Wednesday, 03 May 2023 Read more...

Fatal Attraction, Paramount+ review - Adrian Lyne's bunny-boiler blockbuster expanded onwards and outwards

Tuesday, 02 May 2023 Read more...

Citadel, Prime Video review - did Amazon really pay $300m for this?

Sunday, 30 April 2023 Read more...

The Diplomat, Netflix review - can London's new American ambassador prevent World War Three?

Saturday, 29 April 2023 Read more...

Malpractice, ITV1 review - she got into a mess on the NHS

Monday, 24 April 2023 Read more...

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...

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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,...