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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

LFF 2017: Journey's End review - classic play becomes cracking film

Saturday, 07 October 2017 Read more...

LFF 2017: Breathe review - overdosing on good intentions

Thursday, 05 October 2017 Read more...

Blade Runner 2049 review - powerful but needs more soul

Thursday, 05 October 2017 Read more...

The Last Post, BBC One review - sundown on the Empire

Monday, 02 October 2017 Read more...

h.Club 100 Awards: Broadcast - calling out around the world

Wednesday, 27 September 2017 Read more...

The Child in Time, BBC One review - lost in translation

Monday, 25 September 2017 Read more...

Kingsman: The Golden Circle review - too much of everything

Wednesday, 20 September 2017 Read more...

Black Lake, BBC Four review – Nordic blanc falls flat

Sunday, 17 September 2017 Read more...

Prism, Hampstead Theatre review - a life through the lens

Friday, 15 September 2017 Read more...

Liar, ITV - who, if anybody, is telling the truth?

Tuesday, 12 September 2017 Read more...

Tin Star, Sky Atlantic - broken characters stalked by remorseless fate

Monday, 11 September 2017 Read more...

Walter Becker, 1950-2017 - 'we play rock and roll, but we swing when we play'

Wednesday, 06 September 2017 Read more...

Williams review - much more than a film about motor racing

Wednesday, 02 August 2017 Read more...

The Handmaid's Tale, Series 1 finale, Channel 4 review - exquisite to look at but glacially slow

Monday, 31 July 2017 Read more...

The Wall review - action undercut by too much talk

Friday, 28 July 2017 Read more...

Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, ITV review – intimate revelations from William and Harry

Tuesday, 25 July 2017 Read more...

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King & Conqueror, BBC One review - not many kicks in 106...

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...