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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

Downton Abbey: A New Era review - will we ever see its like again?

Friday, 29 April 2022 Read more...

Life After Life, BBC Two review - déjà vu all over again

Wednesday, 27 April 2022 Read more...

Ennio review - sprawling biog of the maestro of movie music

Thursday, 21 April 2022 Read more...

Anatomy of a Scandal, Netflix review - sex, sexism and the abuse of power

Friday, 15 April 2022 Read more...

Operation Mincemeat review - Colin Firth and co practise the fine art of deception

Friday, 15 April 2022 Read more...

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle review - three decades of hell in the Pacific

Wednesday, 13 April 2022 Read more...

Hacks, Prime Video review - what's so funny about a career in comedy?

Saturday, 09 April 2022 Read more...

Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special Relationship, BBC Two review - when the Iron Lady met the Cowboy President

Monday, 04 April 2022 Read more...

Bridgerton, Season 2, Netflix review - power politics and love triangles as Regency fantasy returns

Saturday, 26 March 2022 Read more...

The Last Kingdom, Season 5, Netflix review - Danes-and-Saxons saga hurtles towards an epic climax

Monday, 21 March 2022 Read more...

Hive review - how a group of Kosovan widows rebuilt their lives

Wednesday, 16 March 2022 Read more...

Drive to Survive, Season 4, Netflix review - bitter rivalries on and off the track

Saturday, 12 March 2022 Read more...

Shane, Amazon Prime review - the outsized life and times of cricket's King of Spin

Tuesday, 08 March 2022 Read more...

The Ipcress File, ITV review – adaptation of Len Deighton thriller fires on all cylinders

Monday, 07 March 2022 Read more...

Peaky Blinders, Series 6 review, BBC One - have we reached peak Peakies?

Monday, 28 February 2022 Read more...

Chloe, BBC One review - good start, weak finish

Tuesday, 22 February 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,...