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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

The Count of Monte Cristo, U&Drama review - silly telly for the silly season

Tuesday, 05 August 2025 Read more...

The Naked Gun review - farce, slapstick and crass stupidity

Friday, 01 August 2025 Read more...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, BBC One review - love, death and hell on the Burma railway

Thursday, 31 July 2025 Read more...

The Waterfront, Netflix review - fish, drugs and rock'n'roll

Monday, 28 July 2025 Read more...

Ballard, Prime Video review - there's something rotten in the LAPD

Tuesday, 22 July 2025 Read more...

Bookish, U&Alibi review - sleuthing and skulduggery in a bomb-battered London

Monday, 21 July 2025 Read more...

Insomnia, Channel 5 review - a chronicle of deaths foretold

Thursday, 10 July 2025 Read more...

Live Aid at 40: When Rock'n'Roll Took on the World, BBC Two review - how Bob Geldof led pop's battle against Ethiopian famine

Tuesday, 08 July 2025 Read more...

Hill, Sky Documentaries review - how Damon Hill battled his demons

Friday, 04 July 2025 Read more...

Jurassic World Rebirth review - prehistoric franchise gets a new lease of life

Wednesday, 02 July 2025 Read more...

F1: The Movie review - Brad Pitt rolls back the years as maverick racer Sonny Hayes

Thursday, 26 June 2025 Read more...

Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they called 'The Professor'

Saturday, 21 June 2025 Read more...

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American adventuresses run riot in Cornwall

Friday, 20 June 2025 Read more...

The Gold, Series 2, BBC One review - back on the trail of the Brink's-Mat bandits

Monday, 09 June 2025 Read more...

Dept. Q, Netflix review - Danish crime thriller finds a new home in Edinburgh

Monday, 02 June 2025 Read more...

The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone, BBC Two - boom and bust in the lingerie trade

Thursday, 29 May 2025 Read more...

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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...

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

"First love is always both terrible and wonderful at the same time", says the 60-year-Norwegian dramatist-novelist-director...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Lost Lear / Consumed

Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★...

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...

Blu-ray: Two Way Stretch / Heavens Above

The years between 1955’s The Ladykillers and 1964’s Dr Strangelove were the years of what Sanjeev Bhaskar recently described as...

Make It Happen, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review...

You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience – responding to knowing mentions of the city’s Leith and...