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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 Truth about Amazon, Channel 4 review - buyer beware

Wednesday, 22 April 2020 Read more...

A Country Life for Half the Price, Channel 5 review - Essex couple Sam and Lucy become rural entrepreneurs

Wednesday, 22 April 2020 Read more...

DVD: The Year of the Sex Olympics

Tuesday, 21 April 2020 Read more...

Earth and Blood, Netflix review - tense and broody thriller ultimately falls short

Saturday, 18 April 2020 Read more...

Quiz, ITV review - cheats never prosper. Well, hardly ever

Thursday, 16 April 2020 Read more...

Believe Me: The Cyprus Rape Case, ITV review - British teenager’s holiday from hell

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 Read more...

Prue Leith: Journey with My Daughter, Channel 4 review - an emotional journey into the past

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 Read more...

Blu-ray: Rio Grande

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 Read more...

Danger Close review - the Vietnam war from an Australian perspective

Saturday, 11 April 2020 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: actor Gemma Whelan

Saturday, 11 April 2020 Read more...

Alma's Not Normal, BBC Two review - bare-knuckle comedy pilot hits the spot

Thursday, 09 April 2020 Read more...

Return to Belsen, ITV review - Jonathan Dimbleby retraces his father's journey to a nightmare world

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 Read more...

The Iron Mask review - preposterous multi-national fantasy

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 Read more...

Ozark, Series 3 review, Netflix - money-laundering saga hits new heights

Monday, 06 April 2020 Read more...

The Trip to Greece, Series Finale, Sky 1 review - bittersweet swansong for the cantankerous comrades

Wednesday, 01 April 2020 Read more...

Pen15, Sky Comedy review - the horror of adolescent schooldays revisited

Wednesday, 01 April 2020 Read more...

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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review - a mysterious silence

A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male companions join her in...

Youssou N'Dour and Super Étoile de Dakar, Roundhouse re...

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...

BBC Proms: First Night, Batiashvili, BBCSO, Oramo review - g...

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

The best-selling single so far this year in the UK is ...

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...