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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

Masters of the Air, Apple TV+ review - painful and poignant account of the Eighth Air Force's bombing campaign

Thursday, 25 January 2024 Read more...

True Detective: Night Country, Sky Atlantic review - death in a cold climate

Friday, 19 January 2024 Read more...

Criminal Record, Apple TV+ review - law and disorder in Hackney

Friday, 12 January 2024 Read more...

Poor Things review - other-worldly adaptation of Alasdair Gray's novel

Thursday, 11 January 2024 Read more...

The Tourist, Series 2, BBC One review - an amnesiac Jamie Dornan explores his Irish roots

Wednesday, 03 January 2024 Read more...

Best of 2023: TV

Monday, 01 January 2024 Read more...

The Kemps: All Gold, BBC Two review - bickering with the Ballet boys

Saturday, 30 December 2023 Read more...

Murder Is Easy, BBC One review - was this journey really necessary?

Thursday, 28 December 2023 Read more...

Mad About the Boy: the Noël Coward Story, BBC Two review - the making of The Master

Wednesday, 27 December 2023 Read more...

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249, BBC Two review - mummy's boy unleashes hell in the halls of academe

Sunday, 24 December 2023 Read more...

The Heist Before Christmas, Sky Max review - the Santa Claus wars

Sunday, 24 December 2023 Read more...

Blood Coast, Netflix review - mayhem in Marseille

Saturday, 16 December 2023 Read more...

Vigil, Series 2, BBC One review - DCI Silva swaps a submarine for deadly drones

Tuesday, 12 December 2023 Read more...

Kin, BBC One review - in Dublin's not-so-fair city

Tuesday, 05 December 2023 Read more...

Boat Story, BBC One review - once upon a time in Yorkshire

Tuesday, 28 November 2023 Read more...

Napoleon review - Sir Ridley Scott's historical epic is wide but not deep

Wednesday, 22 November 2023 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,...