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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

Inside the Bank of England, BBC Two review - economical with the actualité

Wednesday, 03 July 2019 Read more...

Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure, ITV review - national treasure meets natural wonders

Wednesday, 03 July 2019 Read more...

Yesterday review - Beatlemania in a parallel universe

Thursday, 27 June 2019 Read more...

The Planets, Series Finale, BBC Two review - ice cold on Neptune

Wednesday, 26 June 2019 Read more...

Drag SOS, Channel 4 review - absolutely fabulous

Wednesday, 26 June 2019 Read more...

Beecham House, ITV review - a cartoon version of 18th century India

Monday, 24 June 2019 Read more...

Years and Years, Series Finale, BBC One review - soggy ending fails to inspire

Wednesday, 19 June 2019 Read more...

Ackley Bridge, Series 3, Channel 4 review - we gotta get out of this place

Wednesday, 19 June 2019 Read more...

Sometimes Always Never review - small but perfectly crafted

Thursday, 13 June 2019 Read more...

What's My Name: Muhammad Ali, Sky Atlantic review - why they called him The Greatest

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 Read more...

Years and Years, Episode 5, BBC One review - darker and darker

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 Read more...

Big Little Lies, Series 2, Sky Atlantic review - supercharged start for new season

Tuesday, 11 June 2019 Read more...

Gloria Bell review - dancing away the heartache

Thursday, 06 June 2019 Read more...

63 Up, ITV review - age is beginning to wither them

Wednesday, 05 June 2019 Read more...

Her Majesty's Cavalry, ITV review - my kingdom for a horse

Wednesday, 05 June 2019 Read more...

Sundance London 2019 review - psychotic maniacs and old-fashioned weepies

Sunday, 02 June 2019 Read more...

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Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams review - love lessons

Rising temperatures, prickling skin, longing’s all-consuming ache: first love’s swooning symptoms overtake 17-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye) in...

Album: Black Honey - Soak

The default setting for Brighton indie quartet Black Honey...

Káťa Kabanová, Glyndebourne review - emotional concentration...

Even more perhaps than straight theatre, opera seems to draw attention to the meaning behind what may on the face of it appear a simple story....

The Count of Monte Cristo, U&Drama review - silly telly...

Alexandre Dumas’ novel has been filmed an immeasurable number of times (there was a new French version only last year) and...

theartsdesk Q&A: filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud on sex, lo...

"First love is always both terrible and wonderful at the same time", says the 60-year-Norwegian dramatist-novelist-director...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: Lost Lear / Consumed

Lost Lear, Traverse Theatre ★★★...

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews - Alison Spittle / Christopher...

Alison Spittle, Monkey Barrel ★★★

Alison Spittle is fat, she tells us at the top of the show. But not as...

Blu-ray: Two Way Stretch / Heavens Above

The years between 1955’s The Ladykillers and 1964’s Dr Strangelove were the years of what Sanjeev Bhaskar recently described as...

Make It Happen, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 review...

You could distinctly hear the murmurs of recognition from the Edinburgh audience – responding to knowing mentions of the city’s Leith and...