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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

Black Lake, Series 2 Finale, BBC Four review - Swedish chiller fails to thrill

Sunday, 20 January 2019 Read more...

Magnum P.I., Sky 1 review - slick and formulaic remake of Eighties original

Thursday, 17 January 2019 Read more...

Call My Agent!, Netflix review - French movie stars turn out for witty and waspish TV show

Wednesday, 09 January 2019 Read more...

The Favourite review - scintillatingly warped portrait of the court of Queen Anne

Wednesday, 02 January 2019 Read more...

Les Misérables, BBC One review - Dominic West looks the part in new Victor Hugo adaptation

Monday, 31 December 2018 Read more...

Torvill & Dean, ITV review - skating into history

Wednesday, 26 December 2018 Read more...

The Dead Room, BBC Four review - ghosts at the microphone

Tuesday, 25 December 2018 Read more...

Watership Down, BBC One review - run rabbit run

Sunday, 23 December 2018 Read more...

Springsteen on Broadway, Netflix review - one-man band becomes one-man show

Saturday, 15 December 2018 Read more...

Lizzie review - murder most meticulous

Thursday, 13 December 2018 Read more...

Sir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and in Private, ITV review - bachelor boy bounces back

Tuesday, 11 December 2018 Read more...

Care, BBC One review - a blunt but powerful polemic

Monday, 10 December 2018 Read more...

Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942-1984, BBC Four review - the way she was

Sunday, 09 December 2018 Read more...

The Old Man & the Gun review - sundown on Sundance

Friday, 07 December 2018 Read more...

Mrs Wilson, BBC One review - real-life secrets and lies

Wednesday, 28 November 2018 Read more...

The Last Kingdom, Series 3, Netflix review - idylls of the king

Friday, 23 November 2018 Read more...

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Does the orchestra that sways together play together? Quite apart from their (reliably gorgeous) sound, the tight-packed strings of the...

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Album: Benedicte Maurseth - Mirra

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...