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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

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...

A Real Pain review - Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin take a Holocaust tour of Poland

Wednesday, 08 January 2025 Read more...

Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Sky Atlantic review - Colin Firth stars in gruelling dramatisation of the 1988 terror attack

Friday, 03 January 2025 Read more...

SAS Rogue Heroes, Series 2, BBC One review - Paddy Mayne's renegade warriors invade Italy

Wednesday, 01 January 2025 Read more...

All Creatures Great and Small, Christmas Special, Channel 5 review - Mrs Hall steps into the spotlight

Tuesday, 24 December 2024 Read more...

Death in Paradise Christmas Special, BBC One review - who killed Santa Claus?

Monday, 23 December 2024 Read more...

Queer review - Daniel Craig meets William Burroughs

Friday, 13 December 2024 Read more...

Black Doves, Netflix review - Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw battle against the implausible

Tuesday, 10 December 2024 Read more...

Nightbitch review - Mother's life as a dog

Friday, 06 December 2024 Read more...

Conclave review - secrets and lies in the Vatican's inner sanctum

Saturday, 30 November 2024 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,...