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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

Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story, Disney+ review - classic underdog tale of the little team that could

Thursday, 16 November 2023 Read more...

Shetland, Series 8, BBC One review - same place but a different programme

Thursday, 09 November 2023 Read more...

Robbie Williams, Netflix review - tormented superstar bares his soul

Wednesday, 08 November 2023 Read more...

Fellow Travellers, Paramount+ review - four-decade saga of power, politics and gay love

Saturday, 28 October 2023 Read more...

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed review - the closeted life of a Hollywood great

Friday, 20 October 2023 Read more...

London Film Festival 2023 - movies in a musical vein

Saturday, 14 October 2023 Read more...

Frasier, Paramount+ review - he's back! But should he be?

Friday, 13 October 2023 Read more...

Reckoning with the Jimmy Savile legacy - Steve Coogan stars in BBC One's four-part 'factual drama'

Monday, 09 October 2023 Read more...

BlackBerry review - the nerds versus The Man

Thursday, 05 October 2023 Read more...

The Continental, Prime Video - welcome to the expanding John Wick universe

Wednesday, 27 September 2023 Read more...

Expend4bles review - last ride for the over-the-hill gang?

Friday, 22 September 2023 Read more...

Top Boy, Season 5, Netflix review - grime and punishment

Saturday, 16 September 2023 Read more...

AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T Rex review - musical doc falls between two stools

Thursday, 14 September 2023 Read more...

Who Is Erin Carter?, Netflix review - secrets and ultra-violence under the Catalan sun

Thursday, 07 September 2023 Read more...

The Following Events Are Based on a Pack of Lies, BBC One - deliciously bingeable drama from the Skinner sisters

Wednesday, 30 August 2023 Read more...

Harlan Coben's Shelter, Prime Video review - what the hell is going on in Kasselton, New Jersey?

Tuesday, 22 August 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,...