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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 City and the City, BBC Two review - detection in four dimensions

Saturday, 07 April 2018 Read more...

Deep State, Fox review - secrets, lies and spies

Friday, 06 April 2018 Read more...

Sweet Country review - hell in the Outback

Wednesday, 04 April 2018 Read more...

In the Long Run, Sky 1 review - bright start for multiracial comedy

Friday, 30 March 2018 Read more...

Ready Player One review - Spielberg goes back to the future

Thursday, 29 March 2018 Read more...

The Good Fight, Series 2, More4 review - the longer they do it, the better it gets

Friday, 23 March 2018 Read more...

The Durrells, Series 3, ITV review - a winter warmer from Corfu

Monday, 19 March 2018 Read more...

Annihilation, Netflix review - not quite a sci-fi masterpiece

Thursday, 15 March 2018 Read more...

Below the Surface, BBC Four review - terror in Copenhagen

Sunday, 11 March 2018 Read more...

You Were Never Really Here review - a wild ride to the dark side

Thursday, 08 March 2018 Read more...

Red Sparrow review - from Russia with lust

Friday, 02 March 2018 Read more...

Save Me, Sky Atlantic review - it's grim down south

Thursday, 01 March 2018 Read more...

The Light of the Moon, Amazon Prime review - coping with the unthinkable

Wednesday, 28 February 2018 Read more...

Marcella, Series 2, ITV review - more twisted tales of detection

Tuesday, 27 February 2018 Read more...

Tony Banks: ‘You either do it by diplomacy or you do it by violence’ - interview

Friday, 23 February 2018 Read more...

Troy: Fall of a City, BBC One review - soapification of the Trojan War

Sunday, 18 February 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...