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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 Windsors, Series 3, Channel 4 review - perfect timing for return of the bogus royals

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Back in Time for the Corner Shop, BBC Two review - open all hours with the Ardern family

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Flesh and Blood, ITV review - Vivien's new love affair throws a cat among the family pigeons

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Locke & Key, Netflix review - comic book adaptation struggles to find its focus

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Hunters, Amazon Prime review - bringing God's justice to Nazis in America

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The Call of the Wild review - how big-hearted Buck became leader of the pack

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How To Stay out of Jail, Channel 4 review – a bold rehabilitation programme from Durham police

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Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, BBC Four review - is this version more valid than anyone else's?

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The Stranger, Netflix review - strong cast grapples with labyrinthine plotting

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The Split, Series 2, BBC One review - where the law and family fortunes collide

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The Pale Horse, BBC One review - when in doubt, do another Agatha Christie remake

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The L Word: Generation Q, Sky Atlantic review - is the new Word as good as the old Word?

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Universal Credit: Inside the Welfare State, BBC Two review - drowning in a bureaucratic quagmire

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Baghdad Central, Channel 4 review - thriller set in the aftermath of the Iraq war

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Belsen: Our Story, BBC Two review - inside the unfathomable horror of the Holocaust

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Young, Sikh and Proud, BBC One review - siblings divided by their attitudes to faith

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Fawlty Towers: The Play, Apollo Theatre review - lightning s...

There are many definitions of bravery, and taking on the challenge of embodying John Cleese as Basil Fawlty in Cleese’s own stage...

Bermondsey Tales: Fall of the Roman Empire review - dirty de...

What with the likes of Sexy Beast, Layer Cake, The Hatton Garden Job and the oeuvre of Guy Ritchie, the...

Dunedin Consort, Mulroy, Wigmore Hall review - songs of love...

The sixteen voices of the Dunedin Consort raided the large store of music inspired by the Song of Songs and the sonnets of Petrarch in a sensual...

People, Places and Things, Trafalgar Theatre review - a scin...

It’s unusual for a play to be revived with its original director and star, let alone a decade after they premiered the piece. But here we are,...

Withnail and I, Birmingham Rep review - Bruce Robinson’s 198...

Let’s put our cards firmly on the table here. I am a big fan of Bruce Robinson’s cinematic masterpiece about two out-of-work actors who live in...

Jack Doherty, Soho Theatre review - warm and witty childhood...

For fans of a certain age the name Jack Docherty will always be associated with a very good run of chat shows on Channel 5; he was also the star...

Album: Jack Savoretti - Miss Italia

It’s a long way to the middle. Jack Savoretti has worked hard to get there. He’s grafted. His first album, 2007’s Between the Minds,...

Two Tickets to Greece review - the highs and lows of a holid...

Two women were best friends at school but they haven’t...

Hoard review - not any old rubbish

A visually dazzling, fiercely acted psychological drama with a manic comic edge, Hoard channels an 18-year-old South Londoner’s quest to...

Hidden Door 10th Birthday Party, St James Quarter, Edinburgh...

It’s hard to imagine that The Arches – a string of stylish glass-fronted units in prime city centre location, housing boutique bars,...