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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

Defending the Guilty, BBC Two review - trials and tribulations of a trainee barrister

Wednesday, 18 September 2019 Read more...

Love in the Countryside, BBC Two review - reaping a harvest of marital bliss?

Wednesday, 18 September 2019 Read more...

Temple, Sky 1 review - down in the tube station at midnight

Saturday, 14 September 2019 Read more...

Suicidal: In Our Own Words, Channel 5 review - why are so many men killing themselves?

Wednesday, 11 September 2019 Read more...

Spotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History, BBC Four review - Ulster's bitter sectarian war revisited

Wednesday, 11 September 2019 Read more...

Power, politics and Peaky Blinders - the Shelby family return for Series 5

Thursday, 22 August 2019 Read more...

I Am Hannah, Channel 4 review - last in trilogy leaves us dangling

Wednesday, 07 August 2019 Read more...

Euphoria, Sky Atlantic review - teenage nervous breakdown

Wednesday, 07 August 2019 Read more...

Animals review - who decides when the party's over?

Friday, 02 August 2019 Read more...

The Chef's Brigade, BBC Two review - you're in the army now

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 Read more...

Manifest, Sky 1 review - late arrival causes cosmic upheaval

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 Read more...

Keeping Faith, Series 2, BBC One review - family misfortunes

Wednesday, 24 July 2019 Read more...

I Am Nicola, Channel 4 review - not really love, actually

Wednesday, 24 July 2019 Read more...

Pavarotti review - enjoyable but superficial survey of a superstar

Friday, 19 July 2019 Read more...

The Day We Walked on the Moon, ITV review - it was 50 years ago to the day

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 Read more...

Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year, BBC Two review - how big can it get?

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 Read more...

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During the opening seconds of Mirra, an unusual sound leaps out – a grunting. It’s integral to a shifting aural pallete which also...

BBC Proms: Jansen, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mäkelä rev...

How often is an orchestral concert perfect in every texture, every instrumental entry, every phrase? Wednesday's Phiharmonia Prom struck sound-...

Blu-ray: Finis Terrae

British audiences of a certain age will note Finis Terrae’s similarity to Finisterre, one of the 31 sea areas listed in the BBC’s ...

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...

As You Like It: A Radical Retelling, Edinburgh International...

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

Album: Nova Twins - Parasites & Butterflies

For Nova Twins, the alternative rock/metal duo of Amy Love and Georgia South, the years since 2020 have been a non-stop journey of evolution....

Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex review - sexual identity slips, hu...

Two chimney sweeps sit by a window. The boss (Thorbjørn Harr) recounts a dream meeting with David Bowie, who disconcertingly looks at...