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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

Bergerac, U&Drama review - the Jersey 'tec is born again after 34 years

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A Thousand Blows, Disney+ review - Peaky Blinders comes to Ripper Street?

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Zero Day, Netflix review - can ex-President Robert De Niro save the Land of the Free?

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Hacks, Season 3, NOW review - acerbic showbiz comedy keeps up the good work

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Surviving Black Hawk Down, Netflix review - the real story behind Ridley Scott's Oscar-winner

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Vietnam: The War That Changed America, Apple TV+ review - painful and poignant stories from a terrible conflict

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Brian and Maggie, Channel 4 review - Thatcherism's date with TV destiny

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Flight Risk review - the sky's the limit for Michelle Dockery and Mark Wahlberg

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Prime Target, Apple TV+ review - the appliance of science

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Out There, ITV1 review - drugs and thugs disfigure the Welsh landscape

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A Complete Unknown review - how does it feel?

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What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?, BBC Two review - absorbing but troubling search for answers

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American Primeval, Netflix review - nightmare on the Wild Frontier

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Maria review - Pablo Larraín's haunting portrait of an opera legend

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A Real Pain review - Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin take a Holocaust tour of Poland

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Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Sky Atlantic review - Colin Firth stars in gruelling dramatisation of the 1988 terror attack

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