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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 Penguin, Sky Atlantic review - power, corruption, lies and prosthetics

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Nightsleeper, BBC One review - strangers on a runaway train

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The Perfect Couple, Netflix review - an inconvenient death ruins lavish Nantucket wedding

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The Third Man rides again - 75th anniversary of Carol Reed's noir classic

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Slow Horses, Season 4, Apple TV+ review - Gary Oldman returns as the 'gross and inappropriate' Jackson Lamb

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theartsdesk Q&A: David Morrissey on (among other things) the return of 'Sherwood' and 'Daddy Issues'

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Sherwood, Series 2, BBC One review - maybe time isn't such a great healer

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Widow Clicquot review - Haley Bennett stars as the First Lady of champagne

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Freddie Flintoff: Field of Dreams on Tour, BBC One review - a passage to India with the Preston irregulars

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Hollywoodgate review - on tour with the Taliban

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The Instigators, Apple TV+ review - Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are back on the Beantown beat

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Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, Sky Documentaries review - the New Jersey rocker with many strings to his bow

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Lady in the Lake, Apple TV+ review - a multi-layered Baltimore murder mystery

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Twisters review - satisfyingly cataclysmic storm-chaser saga

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The Jetty, BBC One review - lowlife in a Northern town

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Sleep review - things that go bump in the night

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