Person

Matthew Sweet

Acting · Born 1969-12-02

Biography

Matthew Sweet is an English journalist, broadcaster, author, and cultural historian. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he has been interviewed on many documentaries about television for the BBC and Channel 4.

Known for

Filmography

2025BookishWriter
2025John Levene: In ConversationSelf
2025Terror of the SuburbsSelf (Presenter)
2024Sophie Aldred: In ConversationSelf - Interviewer
2022William Russell: In ConversationSelf
2022Maureen O'Brien: In ConversationSelf
2021In Conversation: Sylvester McCoySelf - Interviewer
2019Bonnie Langford: In ConversationSelf
2019Doctor Who and the Third ManHimself
2019A Victorian Scandal: The Rudest Book in Britain
2018Peter Davison: In ConversationSelf
2018Tom Baker in Conversation
2016Beatrix Potter with Patricia RoutledgeSelf
2015Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew SweetHimself
2015Sean Connery: In His Own WordsSelf
2015Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a DamnSelf - Interviewee
2014Al Murray's Great British Spy MoviesHimself
2014Al Murray's Great British War MoviesHimself
2014Remembering 'Dead of Night'
2014How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master DetectiveSelf
2013A Very British Murder with Lucy WorsleySelf
2011The Story of Music HallSelf
2011Dear Censor…: The Secret Archive of the British Board of Film Classification
2011All's Wells That Ends WellsSelf
2011One Hit WonderSelf
2011Riverside StorySelf
2010Limehouse: A Victorian Chinatown
2010Chain ReactionPresenter
2009The Rules of Film NoirSelf - Presenter
2009CybermenPresenter
2008Truly, Madly, Cheaply! British B MoviesHimself
2007The Age of Excess: When Britain Went Too FarPresenter
2006Silent BritainHimself - Presenter
2005Shepperton BabylonWriter
2004The Culture ShowSelf
1995Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest HitsSelf

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