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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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Album: Durand and the Indications - Flowers

Neo-soul devotees Durand Jones and the Indications mine a vein of sensuous sounds, at the soft end of a genre that's partly defined by the raw...

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Music Reissues Weekly: The Sonics - High Time

“Theirs is truly rock in extremis, a précis of the youthful impetuosity and cathartic chaos at the heart of real rock ’n roll.”

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Album: Benson Boone - American Heart

I first had a conversation about Benson Boone without realizing it was him we were talking about. It went something like: “Did...

28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education

The 23 years since 28 Days Later and especially those since Danny Boyle’s soulful encapsulation of Britain’s best spirit at the 2012...

RNCM International Diploma Artists, BBC Philharmonic, MediaC...

Two concerts in the BBC Philharmonic’s series in their own studio form the climax of studies at the Royal Northern College of Music for a small...

Prost, BBC 4 review - life and times of the driver they call...

With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...