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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

The Third Man rides again - 75th anniversary of Carol Reed's noir classic

Friday, 06 September 2024 Read more...

Slow Horses, Season 4, Apple TV+ review - Gary Oldman returns as the 'gross and inappropriate' Jackson Lamb

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: David Morrissey on (among other things) the return of 'Sherwood' and 'Daddy Issues'

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 Read more...

Sherwood, Series 2, BBC One review - maybe time isn't such a great healer

Monday, 26 August 2024 Read more...

Widow Clicquot review - Haley Bennett stars as the First Lady of champagne

Friday, 23 August 2024 Read more...

Freddie Flintoff: Field of Dreams on Tour, BBC One review - a passage to India with the Preston irregulars

Thursday, 15 August 2024 Read more...

Hollywoodgate review - on tour with the Taliban

Thursday, 15 August 2024 Read more...

The Instigators, Apple TV+ review - Matt Damon and Casey Affleck are back on the Beantown beat

Saturday, 10 August 2024 Read more...

Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple, Sky Documentaries review - the New Jersey rocker with many strings to his bow

Monday, 05 August 2024 Read more...

Lady in the Lake, Apple TV+ review - a multi-layered Baltimore murder mystery

Saturday, 27 July 2024 Read more...

Twisters review - satisfyingly cataclysmic storm-chaser saga

Friday, 26 July 2024 Read more...

The Jetty, BBC One review - lowlife in a Northern town

Wednesday, 17 July 2024 Read more...

Sleep review - things that go bump in the night

Friday, 12 July 2024 Read more...

Fly Me to the Moon review - NASA gets a Madison Avenue makeover

Thursday, 11 July 2024 Read more...

The Turkish Detective, BBC Two review - a bad business in the Bosphorus

Tuesday, 09 July 2024 Read more...

The Night Caller, Channel 5 review - all he hears is radio ga ga

Monday, 08 July 2024 Read more...

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The first Jurassic Park movie now seems virtually Jurassic itself, having been released in the sepia-tinged year of 1993. Directed with...

Album: Mocky - Music Will Explain (Choir Music Vol. 1)

Dominic “Mocky” Salole has had a long career in which the tension between authenticity and pastiche has been a constant. Toronto-born, of English...

Semele, Royal Opera review - unholy smoke

Poor, slightly silly Semele fries at the sight of lover Jupiter casting off his mortal form, but in Congreve’s and Handel’s supposedly happy...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

In 2019, French-Tunisian journalist and documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb flew to Sudan after the overthrow of hated dictator Omar al-Bashir,...

Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne review - perceptive humanit...

Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...