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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

theartsdesk Q&A: writer and comedian Tom Davis

Friday, 13 August 2021 Read more...

Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson, Apple TV+ review - riveting survey of the technology that transformed music

Monday, 09 August 2021 Read more...

I Am Victoria, Channel 4 review - improvised drama in need of more substance

Friday, 06 August 2021 Read more...

Professor T, ITV review - whimsical tales of boffinly detection

Monday, 26 July 2021 Read more...

Old review - time flies in tropical island mystery

Friday, 23 July 2021 Read more...

Baptiste, Series 2, BBC One review - powerful comeback for the sorrowful French detective

Monday, 19 July 2021 Read more...

Lie With Me, Channel 5 review - abuse and betrayal in the Melbourne suburbs

Friday, 16 July 2021 Read more...

Carlos Ghosn: The Last Flight - Storyville, BBC Four review - the tycoon who fell to earth

Thursday, 15 July 2021 Read more...

Sex/Life, Netflix review - Mills & Boon for the YouPorn era?

Tuesday, 13 July 2021 Read more...

Mosley: It's Complicated review - flattering portrait of a clever and ruthless power-broker

Friday, 09 July 2021 Read more...

The Tomorrow War, Amazon Prime - futuristic blockbuster outstays its welcome

Saturday, 03 July 2021 Read more...

Ghislaine Maxwell: Epstein's Shadow, Sky Documentaries review - the iniquitous fall of the tycoon's daughter

Friday, 02 July 2021 Read more...

Framing Britney Spears, Sky Documentaries review - the rollercoaster ride of the former teen icon

Thursday, 24 June 2021 Read more...

Physical, Apple TV+ review - too much pain, not enough gain

Tuesday, 22 June 2021 Read more...

Loki, Disney+ review - the God of Mischief gets his own TV series

Thursday, 17 June 2021 Read more...

Lupin, Part 2, Netflix review - master of disguise versus racists and lies

Saturday, 12 June 2021 Read more...

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There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to lose its glow. He still has one of the great voices of Africa, a versatile...

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The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the perfect set-up for a First...

Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades and brings together a...

Harvest review - blood, barley and adaptation

Lovers of a particular novel, when it’s adapted as a movie, often want book and movie to fit together as a hand in a glove. You want it to be like...

Poor Clare, Orange Tree Theatre review - saints cajole us si...

What am I, a philosophical if not political Marxist whose hero is Antonio Gramsci, doing in Harvey Nichols buying Comme des Garçons...

Album: Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

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That Bastard, Puccini!, Park Theatre review - inventive comi...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the...