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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

Overlord review - nightmares in Normandy

Saturday, 10 November 2018 Read more...

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Netflix review - girl power goes supernatural

Saturday, 03 November 2018 Read more...

Strangers, Series Finale, ITV review - Eastern promise goes unfulfilled

Tuesday, 30 October 2018 Read more...

John Fogerty / Steve Miller Band, BluesFest 2018 review - keep on chooglin'

Friday, 26 October 2018 Read more...

Berlin Station, More 4 review - spooks in Euroland

Friday, 26 October 2018 Read more...

LFF 2018: The Favourite review - Queen Anne's bizarre love triangle

Saturday, 20 October 2018 Read more...

LFF 2018: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review - Wild West tales, and Redford and Jackman

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 Read more...

Informer, BBC One review - keeping tabs on terror

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 Read more...

LFF 2018: Colette review - zinging with zeitgeisty relevance

Friday, 12 October 2018 Read more...

First Man - Neil Armstrong's giant leap

Thursday, 11 October 2018 Read more...

The Cry, BBC One review - every parent's nightmare

Monday, 01 October 2018 Read more...

A Discovery of Witches, episode 2, Sky 1 review - when the sorceress met the vampire

Saturday, 22 September 2018 Read more...

Never Here review - conceptual art may damage your health

Wednesday, 19 September 2018 Read more...

Strangers, episode 2, ITV review - conspiracy theories multiply

Tuesday, 18 September 2018 Read more...

Killing Eve, BBC One review - the dying game

Sunday, 16 September 2018 Read more...

Lucky review - fabled character actor stars in his own obituary

Friday, 14 September 2018 Read more...

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In this strangely dreary recreation of 11th century history, it’s not just grim oop north, it’s grim everywhere. King & Conqueror...

Juniper Blood, Donmar Warehouse review - where ideas and ide...

Playwright Mike Bartlett is, like many writers, a chronicler of both contemporary manners and of the state of the nation. In his latest domestic...

Album: The Hives - The Hives Forever, Forever The Hives

The Hives must be one of the most self-assured bands around – but not without good reason. Ever exuberant, all their tunes are short and sweet,...

BBC Proms: Faust, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Nelsons revie...

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

Elizabeth Alker: Everything We Do is Music review - Prokofie...

Composers and musicians explore acoustic...

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...