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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 Greatest Showman review - the great huckster as song and dance man

Wednesday, 20 December 2017 Read more...

Witnesses: A Frozen Death finale, BBC Four review - weirdo childbirth cult hits the buffers

Sunday, 17 December 2017 Read more...

The Tunnel: Vengeance, Sky Atlantic review - entente not-so-cordiale

Friday, 15 December 2017 Read more...

Brigsby Bear review - the healing power of fantasy

Friday, 08 December 2017 Read more...

The Crown, Series 2, Netflix review - all our yesterdays, cunningly rewritten

Friday, 08 December 2017 Read more...

Witnesses: A Frozen Death, BBC Four review - plummeting temperatures in the Pas de Calais

Sunday, 26 November 2017 Read more...

Ferrari: Race to Immortality review - death and glory in 1950s motor racing

Thursday, 02 November 2017 Read more...

The Exorcist, Phoenix Theatre review - see the movie

Wednesday, 01 November 2017 Read more...

Strike Back, Series 6, Sky 1 review - more stories for boys

Wednesday, 01 November 2017 Read more...

Steely Dan / The Doobie Brothers, Bluesfest 2017 review - brilliant Dan, delicious Doobies

Monday, 30 October 2017 Read more...

Breathe review - heroic but airbrushed struggle against disability

Thursday, 26 October 2017 Read more...

Gunpowder, BBC One review – death, horror, treason and a hint of farce

Sunday, 22 October 2017 Read more...

George Michael: Freedom, Channel 4 review - just a supersized commercial?

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 Read more...

LFF 2017: Mindhunter / My Generation - Fincher comes to Netflix, Caine does Swinging London

Friday, 13 October 2017 Read more...

LFF 2017: Blade of the Immortal / Redoubtable - Samurai slasher versus the Nouvelle Vague

Thursday, 12 October 2017 Read more...

Snowfall, BBC Two review - blizzard hits South Central

Monday, 09 October 2017 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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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-...

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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...