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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

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...

Flight Risk review - the sky's the limit for Michelle Dockery and Mark Wahlberg

Saturday, 25 January 2025 Read more...

Prime Target, Apple TV+ review - the appliance of science

Thursday, 23 January 2025 Read more...

Out There, ITV1 review - drugs and thugs disfigure the Welsh landscape

Wednesday, 22 January 2025 Read more...

A Complete Unknown review - how does it feel?

Friday, 17 January 2025 Read more...

What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?, BBC Two review - absorbing but troubling search for answers

Wednesday, 15 January 2025 Read more...

American Primeval, Netflix review - nightmare on the Wild Frontier

Monday, 13 January 2025 Read more...

Maria review - Pablo Larraín's haunting portrait of an opera legend

Friday, 10 January 2025 Read more...

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