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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

Spiral, Series 7, BBC Four review - hard-hitting return of our favourite French cop show

Sunday, 20 October 2019 Read more...

Giri/Haji, BBC Two review - inspired Anglo-Japanese thriller makes compulsive viewing

Friday, 18 October 2019 Read more...

Lenny Henry's Race Through Comedy, Gold review - illuminating account of TV's struggle to become multicultural

Wednesday, 16 October 2019 Read more...

Chaos in the Cockpit: Flights from Hell, Channel 5 review - do we really want to watch plane-wreck TV?

Tuesday, 15 October 2019 Read more...

LFF 2019: Le Mans '66 review - Matt Damon, Christian Bale and the Ford Motor Company go to war

Saturday, 12 October 2019 Read more...

American Woman review - leading lady Sienna Miller moves up a gear

Wednesday, 09 October 2019 Read more...

Doing Drugs for Fun, Channel 5 review - why the cocaine trade is no laughing matter

Wednesday, 09 October 2019 Read more...

The Great British Bake Off, Episode 7, Channel 4 review - bakers hampered by pointless celebrities

Wednesday, 09 October 2019 Read more...

LFF 2019: The King review - head conquers heart in Shakespeare adaptation

Saturday, 05 October 2019 Read more...

The Capture, Episode 5, BBC One review - the man who knew too much

Wednesday, 02 October 2019 Read more...

Snackmasters, Channel 4 review - superchefs take the clone-a-KitKat challenge

Wednesday, 02 October 2019 Read more...

World on Fire, BBC One review - more melodrama than drama

Monday, 30 September 2019 Read more...

My Life is Murder, Alibi review - whimsical tales of detection from Down Under

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 Read more...

Saving Lives at Sea, BBC Two review - derring-do on the ocean wave with the RNLI

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 Read more...

The $50m Art Swindle, BBC Two review - ramblin' gamblin' man comes home to roost

Tuesday, 24 September 2019 Read more...

The Cameron Years, BBC One review - quite interesting but a bit boring

Friday, 20 September 2019 Read more...

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Album: HAIM - I Quit

Haim’s profile just grows and grows. Since their last album, youngest sibling Alana’s starring role in Paul Thomas Anderson’s whimsical Seventies...

Aldeburgh Festival, Weekend 1 review - dance to the music of...

This year’s Aldeburgh Festival – the 76th – takes as its motto a line from Shelley‘s Prometheus Unbound. The poet speaks of despair “...

Bonnie Raitt, Brighton Dome review - a top night with a char...

If you walked into a bar in the US, say in one of the southern states, and Bonnie Raitt and her band were playing, you’d have the best night of...

Hidden Door Festival 2025 review - the transformative Edinbu...

"When I was your age, I worked in a corrugated cardboard factory!" is a phrase my father was fond of telling me as a teenager, presumably in an...

Edward Burra, Tate Britain review - watercolour made mainstr...

It’s unusual to leave an exhibition liking an artist’s work less than when you went in, but...

Joyceana around Bloomsday, Dublin review - flawless adaptati...

It amuses me that Dubliners dress up in Edwardian finery on 16 June. After all, this was the date in 1904 when James Joyce first walked out with...

Stereophonic, Duke of York's Theatre review - rich slic...

The tag “the most Tony-nominated play of all time” may mean less to London theatregoers than it does to New Yorkers, but Stereophonic,...