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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

Arctic review - The Martian on ice

Wednesday, 08 May 2019 Read more...

Trust Me, Series 2 Finale, BBC One review - dodgy doctors and unreliable nurses

Wednesday, 08 May 2019 Read more...

The Widow, Series Finale, ITV review - Congolese drama parts company with reality

Wednesday, 01 May 2019 Read more...

Bake Off: The Professionals, Channel 4 review - farcical but fun

Wednesday, 01 May 2019 Read more...

Hall & Oates, Wembley SSE Arena review - bestselling duo still have the power

Saturday, 27 April 2019 Read more...

Run for Your Life, ITV review - giving the nation's youth a sporting chance

Wednesday, 24 April 2019 Read more...

Looking for Rembrandt, BBC Four review - painter's biog is a mini-masterpiece

Wednesday, 24 April 2019 Read more...

Trust Me, Series 2, BBC One review - hospital killer chiller

Wednesday, 17 April 2019 Read more...

Wild Rose review - how country music can set you free

Thursday, 11 April 2019 Read more...

Don't Forget the Driver, BBC Two review - trying to beat the Bognor blues

Wednesday, 10 April 2019 Read more...

Pet Sematary review - spine-jolting shocks, but a disappointing ending

Saturday, 06 April 2019 Read more...

Line of Duty, Series 5, BBC One review - already it's dark, dirty and dangerous

Monday, 01 April 2019 Read more...

Road to Brexit, BBC Two review - a rotten historian for a rotten parliament

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 Read more...

Victoria, Series 3, ITV review - can Her Maj cope with the Age of Revolution?

Monday, 25 March 2019 Read more...

The White Crow review - gripping depiction of the brilliance of Nureyev

Thursday, 21 March 2019 Read more...

Shetland, Series 5 Finale, BBC One review - Sicario-on-Sea?

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Read more...

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The Gathered Leaves, Park Theatre review - dated script lift...

The Gathered Leaves is set on the tectonic plates of a middle-class family menu reunion, in which three generations grapple with the...

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There is, let’s be honest, a certain self-congratulatory self-satisfaction among some particularly well-heeled sections of the Edinburgh...