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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

Play Dead review - chills, thrills and stolen body parts

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Endeavour: The Final Episode, ITV1 review - the final bow for Oxford's finest

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MH370: The Plane That Disappeared, Netflix review - a field day for conspiracy theorists

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Daisy Jones & The 6, Amazon Prime review - hit rock'n'roll novel doesn't make great TV

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Liaison, Apple TV+ review - tangly Franglais thriller presses some hot buttons

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Drive to Survive, Season 5, Netflix review - fly-on-the wall F1 show may need a reboot

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The Gold, BBC One review - gripping dramatisation of the 1983 Brink's-Mat bullion robbery

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Fauda, Season 4, Netflix review - Israeli terrorism thriller gets darker and dirtier

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Women at War, Netflix review - contrasting stories entwine during the chaos of World War One

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Stewart, Sky Documentaries review - touching and insightful portrait of Scottish race ace

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Happy Valley, Series 3, BBC One review - tension mounts as the Yorkshire crime drama approaches its conclusion

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Stonehouse, ITV review - history repeats itself as farce

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Doc Martin Christmas Special, ITV review - Santa comes to Portwenn as the final curtain falls

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All Creatures Great and Small Christmas Special, Channel 5 review - life during wartime with the Yorkshire vets

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Wildcat review - damaged war veteran reborn in the Peruvian jungle

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Adam Sweeting's Top 10 Films of 2022

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Dance of Death, National Theatre of Norway, Coronet Theatre...

You don’t have to be Scandinavian to act out Strindberg’s fantastical extremes at the highest level, but I’ve not seen any British performers come...

Allelujah review - Alan Bennett put through the blender

I'm proffering just a tad less than three cheers for Allelujah, the film version of...

Turandot, Royal Opera review - spectacle and sound wow in th...

Nearly 40 years old, Andrei Serban’s Royal Opera Turandot feels like a gilded relic (I felt like a relic myself on learning that my...

The Way Old Friends Do, Park Theatre review - sweet, but fli...

Is it a good idea to work with your spouse? The Way Old Friends Do, a love letter to ABBA tribute bands – which...

Album: Cécile McLorin Salvant - Mélusine

In European folklore, mélusine are woman from the waist up and fish or serpent below. The fabled character is first known in the 13th century....

Music Reissues Weekly: Duffy Power - Innovations, Live At Th...

Sometime in early October 1963 John Lennon and Paul McCartney encountered The Rolling Stones and offered them one of their songs; one which became...

Blu-ray: Saraband for Dead Lovers

The 17th century romantic tragedy Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948), Ealing Studios' first Technicolor film, was conceived as a magnificent...

Amidon, Clayton, SCO, Kuusisto, Queen's Hall, Edinburgh...

On paper, the formula shouldn’t be that special. Really good music played by really good people is hardly a groundbreaking concept...

Further Than the Furthest Thing, Young Vic review - small is...

Some plays are instantly forgettable, others leave a tender fold in the memory. I well remember seeing Zinnie Harris’s evocatively titled ...