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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

Anthracite, Netflix review - murderous mysteries in the French Alps

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 Read more...

Civil War review - God help America

Friday, 12 April 2024 Read more...

Scoop, Netflix review - revisiting a Right Royal nightmare

Friday, 05 April 2024 Read more...

This Town, BBC One review - lurid melodrama in Eighties Brummieland

Monday, 01 April 2024 Read more...

Passenger, ITV review - who are they trying to kid?

Thursday, 28 March 2024 Read more...

3 Body Problem, Netflix review - life, the universe and everything (and a bit more)

Tuesday, 26 March 2024 Read more...

The Delinquents review - escape to the country, Buenos Aires style

Thursday, 21 March 2024 Read more...

Manhunt, Apple TV+ review - all the President's men

Tuesday, 19 March 2024 Read more...

The New Boy review - a mystical take on Australia's treatment of its First Peoples

Saturday, 16 March 2024 Read more...

The Gentlemen, Netflix review - Guy Ritchie's further adventures in Geezerworld

Tuesday, 12 March 2024 Read more...

Prisoner, BBC Four review - jailhouse rocked by drugs, violence and racism

Thursday, 07 March 2024 Read more...

Drive to Survive, Season 6, Netflix review - F1 documentary overtaken by events

Tuesday, 27 February 2024 Read more...

The Way, BBC One review - steeltown blues

Tuesday, 20 February 2024 Read more...

Kin, Series 2, BBC One review - when crime dynasties collide

Monday, 19 February 2024 Read more...

Bob Marley: One Love review - sanitised official version of the Jamaican icon's story

Thursday, 15 February 2024 Read more...

Griselda, Netflix review - Sofía Vergara excels as the Godmother of cocaine trafficking

Sunday, 04 February 2024 Read more...

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Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

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Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...