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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 Waterfront, Netflix review - fish, drugs and rock'n'roll

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Ballard, Prime Video review - there's something rotten in the LAPD

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Bookish, U&Alibi review - sleuthing and skulduggery in a bomb-battered London

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Insomnia, Channel 5 review - a chronicle of deaths foretold

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Live Aid at 40: When Rock'n'Roll Took on the World, BBC Two review - how Bob Geldof led pop's battle against Ethiopian famine

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Hill, Sky Documentaries review - how Damon Hill battled his demons

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Jurassic World Rebirth review - prehistoric franchise gets a new lease of life

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F1: The Movie review - Brad Pitt rolls back the years as maverick racer Sonny Hayes

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Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they called 'The Professor'

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The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American adventuresses run riot in Cornwall

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The Gold, Series 2, BBC One review - back on the trail of the Brink's-Mat bandits

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Dept. Q, Netflix review - Danish crime thriller finds a new home in Edinburgh

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The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone, BBC Two - boom and bust in the lingerie trade

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The Phoenician Scheme review - further adventures in the idiosyncratic world of Wes Anderson

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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning review - can this really be the end for Ethan Hunt?

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The Bombing of Pan Am 103, BBC One review - new dramatisation of the horrific Lockerbie terror attack

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