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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

Coronation Street: 60 Unforgettable Years, ITV review - inside story of the world's longest-running TV soap

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Host review - Zoom seance triggers unspeakable consequences

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The Dambusters, Channel 5 review - yet another telling of the Bouncing Bomb story

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County Lines review - a scary descent into drug-dealer purgatory

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The Undoing, Series Finale, Sky Atlantic review - bluff and double-bluff as the truth is revealed

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Small Axe: Red, White and Blue, BBC One review - sobering real-life story of police officer Leroy Logan

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Possessor review - death by virtual reality

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The Good Lord Bird, Sky Atlantic review - picaresque account of the myth of John Brown

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Offended by Irvine Welsh, Sky Arts review - are we seeing the end of free speech?

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The Crown, Season 4, Netflix review - royalty rocked by personal and political turbulence

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theartsdesk Q&A: screenwriter Jed Mercurio

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The Queen's Gambit, Netflix review - chess prodigy's story makes brilliant television

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The Sister, ITV review - half-baked dramatisation of esteemed novel

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The Undoing, Sky Atlantic review - trouble in paradise for gilded Manhattan couple

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Bruce Springsteen's Letter to You, Apple TV+ review - his new album is a matter of life and death

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Roadkill, BBC One review - David Hare pokes under the floorboards of the Conservative party

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If nothing else, ITV’s new thriller Out There is a fabulous advertisement for the Welsh countryside. Many scenes were shot in Brecon and...

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Despite Rossini’s banger of an overture and a Looney Tunes cartoon starring Daffy Duck as William Tell, I’ll wager that few non-German-speakers...

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David Lynch: In Dreams (1946-2025)

David Lynch’s final two features mapped a haunted Hollywood of curdled innocence and back-alley eeriness. Mulholland Drive (2001) seemed...