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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

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

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Possessor review - death by virtual reality

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

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

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

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theartsdesk Q&A: screenwriter Jed Mercurio

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson, BBC Two review - ambitious history of the slave trade falls short

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LFF 2020: One Night in Miami review - Kemp Powers's play makes the leap to the big screen

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Brave New World, Sky 1 review - Aldous Huxley's novel doesn't look very happy on TV

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Weilerstein, NYO2, Payare / Dueñas, Malofeev, Edinburgh Inte...

NYO2 is a group of dazzlingly talented (and terrifyingly young-looking) 14-17 year olds from the USA, one of Carnegie Hall’s three national youth...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Monstering the Rocketman by...

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theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud on sex, lo...

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Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams review - love lessons

Rising temperatures, prickling skin, longing’s all-consuming ache: first love’s swooning symptoms overtake 17-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye) in...

Album: Black Honey - Soak

The default setting for Brighton indie quartet Black Honey...

Káťa Kabanová, Glyndebourne review - emotional concentration...

Even more perhaps than straight theatre, opera seems to draw attention to the meaning behind what may on the face of it appear a simple story....

The Count of Monte Cristo, U&Drama review - silly telly...

Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been filmed an immeasurable number of times (there was a new French version only last year) and...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Lost Lear / Consumed

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Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher...

Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★

Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as...