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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

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...

Stewart, Sky Documentaries review - touching and insightful portrait of Scottish race ace

Tuesday, 17 January 2023 Read more...

Happy Valley, Series 3, BBC One review - tension mounts as the Yorkshire crime drama approaches its conclusion

Monday, 16 January 2023 Read more...

Stonehouse, ITV review - history repeats itself as farce

Thursday, 05 January 2023 Read more...

Doc Martin Christmas Special, ITV review - Santa comes to Portwenn as the final curtain falls

Tuesday, 27 December 2022 Read more...

All Creatures Great and Small Christmas Special, Channel 5 review - life during wartime with the Yorkshire vets

Saturday, 24 December 2022 Read more...

Wildcat review - damaged war veteran reborn in the Peruvian jungle

Friday, 23 December 2022 Read more...

Adam Sweeting's Top 10 Films of 2022

Thursday, 22 December 2022 Read more...

Harry & Meghan, Netflix review - at home with the Harkles

Friday, 09 December 2022 Read more...

George & Tammy, Paramount+ review - alcohol, violence and heartache in Nashville

Thursday, 08 December 2022 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,...