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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

A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249, BBC Two review - mummy's boy unleashes hell in the halls of academe

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The Heist Before Christmas, Sky Max review - the Santa Claus wars

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Blood Coast, Netflix review - mayhem in Marseille

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Vigil, Series 2, BBC One review - DCI Silva swaps a submarine for deadly drones

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Kin, BBC One review - in Dublin's not-so-fair city

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Boat Story, BBC One review - once upon a time in Yorkshire

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Napoleon review - Sir Ridley Scott's historical epic is wide but not deep

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Brawn: The Impossible Formula 1 Story, Disney+ review - classic underdog tale of the little team that could

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Shetland, Series 8, BBC One review - same place but a different programme

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Robbie Williams, Netflix review - tormented superstar bares his soul

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Fellow Travellers, Paramount+ review - four-decade saga of power, politics and gay love

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Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed review - the closeted life of a Hollywood great

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London Film Festival 2023 - movies in a musical vein

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Frasier, Paramount+ review - he's back! But should he be?

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Reckoning with the Jimmy Savile legacy - Steve Coogan stars in BBC One's four-part 'factual drama'

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BlackBerry review - the nerds versus The Man

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As the Poppies’ set at Birmingham’s O2 Academy drew to an end on Friday night, co-vocalist Mary Byker barked into his microphone: “Reform is on...

Janine Harouni, Soho Theatre review - families and surviving...

Write about what you know, they say. And just as her previous show was about imminent motherhood (she performed the show while heavily...

'Fevereaten' sees gothic punk-metallers Witch Feve...

Witch Fever are a rising three-piece, originally formed in ...

The Mastermind review - another slim but nourishing slice of...

The clatter of cool jazz on the soundtrack announces writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest project, the kind of score that back in the day...

Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ibragimova, Queen’s Hall, Edinbu...

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra punches well above its weight when it comes to guest artists, and it was a big thing for them to have someone of...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere review - the story of t...

There’s something about hauntingly performed songs written in the first person that can draw us in like nothing else. As songs from...

theartsdesk Q&A: Soft Cell

Seven years ago, Soft Cell were about to perform at a sold-out O2, a one-off event they entitled, after 16 years apart, One Night, One Final Time...

Little Brother, Soho Theatre review - light, bright but emot...

Niall is unwell. Very unwell. Very, very. There’s a lot going on in his head. He can’t really hold things together. Evidence? Well, he’s lost his...

Demi Lovato's ninth album, 'It's Not That Dee...

Demi Lovato is impressive on many fronts. She’s a Noughties Disney...