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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

Wonder Woman 1984 review - be careful what you wish for

Wednesday, 16 December 2020 Read more...

Mosul, Netflix review - gruelling story of Iraq's Nineveh SWAT team

Saturday, 12 December 2020 Read more...

Tin Star: Liverpool, Sky Atlantic review - massed mayhem on Merseyside

Friday, 11 December 2020 Read more...

Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years, ITV review - inside story of the world's longest-running TV soap

Tuesday, 08 December 2020 Read more...

Host review - Zoom seance triggers unspeakable consequences

Saturday, 05 December 2020 Read more...

The Dambusters, Channel 5 review - yet another telling of the Bouncing Bomb story

Friday, 04 December 2020 Read more...

County Lines review - a scary descent into drug-dealer purgatory

Thursday, 03 December 2020 Read more...

The Undoing, Series Finale, Sky Atlantic review - bluff and double-bluff as the truth is revealed

Tuesday, 01 December 2020 Read more...

Small Axe: Red, White and Blue, BBC One review - sobering real-life story of police officer Leroy Logan

Monday, 30 November 2020 Read more...

Possessor review - death by virtual reality

Thursday, 26 November 2020 Read more...

The Good Lord Bird, Sky Atlantic review - picaresque account of the myth of John Brown

Thursday, 19 November 2020 Read more...

Offended by Irvine Welsh, Sky Arts review - are we seeing the end of free speech?

Wednesday, 18 November 2020 Read more...

The Crown, Season 4, Netflix review - royalty rocked by personal and political turbulence

Sunday, 15 November 2020 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: screenwriter Jed Mercurio

Monday, 09 November 2020 Read more...

The Queen's Gambit, Netflix review - chess prodigy's story makes brilliant television

Friday, 06 November 2020 Read more...

The Sister, ITV review - half-baked dramatisation of esteemed novel

Thursday, 29 October 2020 Read more...

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I recently heard a BBC Radio 4 presenter use the troubling phrase: "Not everyone agreed on the reality of that." Once the domain of Andre Breton’s...

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“Dying is an act of eroticism,” suggested one of the many disposable characters in David Cronenberg’s first full-length feature, Shivers...