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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

Wonder Woman review - Gal Gadot shines in uneven superhero yarn

Thursday, 01 June 2017 Read more...

CD: Roger Waters – Is This the Life We Really Want?

Thursday, 01 June 2017 Read more...

Broken, BBC One review - things look bleak in McGovernville

Wednesday, 31 May 2017 Read more...

Sachin: A Billion Dreams review - the incredible feats of cricket's 'Little Master'

Friday, 26 May 2017 Read more...

White Gold, BBC Two review – rattling pace and razor-edged dialogue

Thursday, 25 May 2017 Read more...

McLaren review - illuminating portrait of New Zealand's racing ace

Wednesday, 24 May 2017 Read more...

10 Questions for film director Roger Donaldson – 'motor racing in the 1960s was incredibly dangerous'

Tuesday, 23 May 2017 Read more...

Kat and Alfie: Redwater, BBC One review – 'EastEnders' spinoff suffers from no fixed identity

Friday, 19 May 2017 Read more...

King Charles III, BBC Two review - royal crisis makes thrilling drama

Thursday, 11 May 2017 Read more...

Alien: Covenant review - we've seen most of this before

Thursday, 11 May 2017 Read more...

Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, V&A review – from innocence to experience and beyond

Wednesday, 10 May 2017 Read more...

Britain's Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story review - 'power, politics and national identity'

Thursday, 04 May 2017 Read more...

Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road review – ripping yarns of rock'n'roll

Saturday, 29 April 2017 Read more...

The Promise review - genocide reduced to melodrama

Friday, 28 April 2017 Read more...

Little Boy Blue review – 'the sum of all fears'

Tuesday, 25 April 2017 Read more...

Clash review - 'a nation in crisis'

Wednesday, 19 April 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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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-...

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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...