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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 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...

The Phoenician Scheme review - further adventures in the idiosyncratic world of Wes Anderson

Friday, 23 May 2025 Read more...

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning review - can this really be the end for Ethan Hunt?

Thursday, 22 May 2025 Read more...

The Bombing of Pan Am 103, BBC One review - new dramatisation of the horrific Lockerbie terror attack

Monday, 19 May 2025 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: Zoë Telford on playing a stressed-out psychiatrist in ITV's 'Malpractice'

Friday, 16 May 2025 Read more...

Malpractice, ITV1, Series 2 review - fear and loathing in the psychiatric unit

Tuesday, 06 May 2025 Read more...

Fake, ITV1 review - be careful what you wish for

Sunday, 04 May 2025 Read more...

Formula E: Driver, Prime Video review - inside the world's first zero-carbon sport

Saturday, 03 May 2025 Read more...

The Accountant 2 review - belated return of Ben Affleck's lethal bean-counter

Friday, 25 April 2025 Read more...

Flintoff, Disney+ review - tumultuous life and times of the great all-rounder

Thursday, 24 April 2025 Read more...

Neil Young: Coastal review - the old campaigner gets back on the trail

Saturday, 19 April 2025 Read more...

Your Friends & Neighbors, Apple TV+ review - in every dream home a heartache

Monday, 14 April 2025 Read more...

The Amateur review - revenge of the nerd

Friday, 11 April 2025 Read more...

MobLand, Paramount+ review - more guns, goons and gangsters from Guy Ritchie

Friday, 04 April 2025 Read more...

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On leaving prison, Lollipop’s thirtyish single mum Molly discovers that reclaiming her kids from social care is akin to doing lengths in...

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I first came across Rachel Jones in 2021 at the Hayward Gallery’s painting show Mixing it Up: Painting Today. I was blown away by the...

Album: The Young Gods - Appear Disappear

Swiss electro-rockers, Young Gods have been around for 40 years, but this in no way should suggest that they’ve gone soft in their old age. These...

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The King of Pangea, King's Head Theatre review - grief...

There’s an old theatre joke. “The electric chair is too good for a monster like that. They should send him out of town with a new...

Album: Sam Binga - Sam Binga Presents Club Orthodontics

When I was writing the introduction to my book, Bass, Mids, Tops: An Oral History of Soundsystem Culture, I came up with a phrase, which...