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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

Your Friends & Neighbors, Apple TV+ review - in every dream home a heartache

Monday, 14 April 2025 Read more...

The Amateur review - revenge of the nerd

Friday, 11 April 2025 Read more...

MobLand, Paramount+ review - more guns, goons and gangsters from Guy Ritchie

Friday, 04 April 2025 Read more...

This City is Ours, BBC One review - civil war rocks family cocaine racket

Monday, 31 March 2025 Read more...

The Alto Knights review - double dose of De Niro doesn't hit the spot

Friday, 21 March 2025 Read more...

Adolescence, Netflix review - Stephen Graham battles the phantom menace of the internet

Tuesday, 18 March 2025 Read more...

Black Bag review - lies, spies and unpleasant surprises

Friday, 14 March 2025 Read more...

Drive to Survive, Season 7, Netflix review - speed, scandal and skulduggery in the pitlane

Saturday, 08 March 2025 Read more...

A Cruel Love: The Ruth Ellis Story, ITV1 review - powerful dramatisation of the 1955 case that shocked the public

Thursday, 06 March 2025 Read more...

Bergerac, U&Drama review - the Jersey 'tec is born again after 34 years

Friday, 28 February 2025 Read more...

A Thousand Blows, Disney+ review - Peaky Blinders comes to Ripper Street?

Monday, 24 February 2025 Read more...

Zero Day, Netflix review - can ex-President Robert De Niro save the Land of the Free?

Thursday, 20 February 2025 Read more...

Hacks, Season 3, NOW review - acerbic showbiz comedy keeps up the good work

Wednesday, 19 February 2025 Read more...

Surviving Black Hawk Down, Netflix review - the real story behind Ridley Scott's Oscar-winner

Friday, 14 February 2025 Read more...

Vietnam: The War That Changed America, Apple TV+ review - painful and poignant stories from a terrible conflict

Monday, 03 February 2025 Read more...

Brian and Maggie, Channel 4 review - Thatcherism's date with TV destiny

Thursday, 30 January 2025 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,...