Matthew Sweet

Known for

Acting

Born

December 2, 1969 (age 56)

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.

Best known work

Bookish

2025

The Rules of Film Noir

2009

The Culture Show

2004

Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits

1995

A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley

2013

Silent Britain

2006

Al Murray's Great British War Movies

2014

Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn

2015

Remembering 'Dead of Night'

2014

Shepperton Babylon

2005

Filmography

2025
BookishTV
Writer
2025
John Levene: In Conversation
as Self
2025
Terror of the Suburbs
as Self (Presenter)
2024
Sophie Aldred: In Conversation
as Self - Interviewer
2022
William Russell: In Conversation
as Self
2022
Maureen O'Brien: In Conversation
as Self
2021
In Conversation: Sylvester McCoy
as Self - Interviewer
2019
Bonnie Langford: In Conversation
as Self
2019
Doctor Who and the Third Man
as Himself
2019
A Victorian Scandal: The Rudest Book in Britain
2018
Peter Davison: In Conversation
as Self
2018
Tom Baker in Conversation
2016
Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge
as Self
2015
Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet
as Himself
2015
Sean Connery: In His Own Words
as Self
2015
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
as Self - Interviewee
2014
Al Murray's Great British Spy Movies
as Himself
2014
Al Murray's Great British War Movies
as Himself
2014
Remembering 'Dead of Night'
2014
How to Be Sherlock Holmes: The Many Faces of a Master Detective
as Self
2013
A Very British Murder with Lucy WorsleyTV
as Self (3 episodes)
2012
BFI's Introducing Ealing Studios
as Himself
2011
The Story of Music Hall
as Self
2011
Dear Censor…: The Secret Archive of the British Board of Film Classification
2011
All's Wells That Ends Wells
as Self