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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

The Dambusters, Channel 5 review - yet another telling of the Bouncing Bomb story

Friday, 04 December 2020 Read more...

County Lines review - a scary descent into drug-dealer purgatory

Thursday, 03 December 2020 Read more...

The Undoing, Series Finale, Sky Atlantic review - bluff and double-bluff as the truth is revealed

Tuesday, 01 December 2020 Read more...

Small Axe: Red, White and Blue, BBC One review - sobering real-life story of police officer Leroy Logan

Monday, 30 November 2020 Read more...

Possessor review - death by virtual reality

Thursday, 26 November 2020 Read more...

The Good Lord Bird, Sky Atlantic review - picaresque account of the myth of John Brown

Thursday, 19 November 2020 Read more...

Offended by Irvine Welsh, Sky Arts review - are we seeing the end of free speech?

Wednesday, 18 November 2020 Read more...

The Crown, Season 4, Netflix review - royalty rocked by personal and political turbulence

Sunday, 15 November 2020 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: screenwriter Jed Mercurio

Monday, 09 November 2020 Read more...

The Queen's Gambit, Netflix review - chess prodigy's story makes brilliant television

Friday, 06 November 2020 Read more...

The Sister, ITV review - half-baked dramatisation of esteemed novel

Thursday, 29 October 2020 Read more...

The Undoing, Sky Atlantic review - trouble in paradise for gilded Manhattan couple

Tuesday, 27 October 2020 Read more...

Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You, Apple TV+ review - his new album is a matter of life and death

Tuesday, 20 October 2020 Read more...

Roadkill, BBC One review - David Hare pokes under the floorboards of the Conservative party

Monday, 19 October 2020 Read more...

LFF 2020: Never Gonna Snow Again review - mystic masseur with God-like gifts

Saturday, 17 October 2020 Read more...

Emily in Paris, Netflix review - addictive escapism in the City of Light

Wednesday, 14 October 2020 Read more...

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