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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 Deceived, Channel 5 review - who's fooling who?

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Little Birds, Sky Atlantic review - decadence and intrigue in 1950s Morocco

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The Talk, Channel 4 review - coping with the legacy of racism

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Unhinged review - road-rage Russ goes gonzo

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Prodigal Son, Sky 1 review - meet Michael Sheen, psycho killer

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Our Baby: A Modern Miracle, Channel 4 review - trailblazing couple's amazing journey

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Laurel Canyon, Sky Documentaries review - musical bliss in lotus land

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Piranhas review - riding with the teenage gangs of Naples

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The Real Eastenders, Channel 4 review - timewarp on the Thames

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The Plot Against America, Sky Atlantic review - fascism comes to 1940s USA

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The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty, BBC Two review - how the Aussie tycoon acquired huge political leverage

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Litigante review - an unflashy film which rings true

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Mrs America, BBC Two review - how a conservative revolutionary scuppered the Equal Rights Amendment

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The Choir: Singing for Britain Finale, BBC Two review - stirring songs from a garden shed

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The Battle of Britain, Channel 5 review - 80th anniversary of the RAF's finest hour

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The Kemps: All True, BBC Two review - more self-promotion than self-mockery

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Album: EYE - Dark Light

Skirting along the peripheries of doom metal,...

Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York), Criterion Thea...

Small-scale shows, nurtured in offbeat places, are becoming all the rage in the...

Queyras, Philharmonia, Suzuki, RFH review - Romantic journey...

As he approaches his 70th birthday, Masaaki Suzuki has not just travelled into pastures new but proved himself thoroughly at home in them. The...

Nadine Shah, SWG3, Glasgow review - loudly dancing the night...

First Nadine Shah raised hopes, then dashed them. “I’ve never had a dance off onstage before,” she observed at one point, impressed by the shapes...

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, Tate M...

In 1903, Wassily Kandinsky painted a figure in a blue cloak galloping across a landscape on a white horse. Several years later the name of the...

Blu-ray: The Dreamers

Isabelle (Eva Green) leans over, her long hair catches fire from a candle, and Matthew (Michael Pitt) devotedly snuffs it out. She doesn’t miss a...

Orbital, O2 Institute, Birmingham review - the techno titans...

On Friday evening, dance veterans Orbital touched down in Birmingham to celebrate two of the most significant and acclaimed albums in...

Fern Brady, Netflix Special review - sex, relationships and...

An appearance on Taskmaster and the publication of her acclaimed memoir Strong Female Character have helped propel Fern Brady...

Album: The Lemon Twigs - A Dream Is All We Know

The Lemon Twigs aren’t shy about telegraphing their inspirations. A Dream is all we Know, their swift follow-up to last May’s ...

Götterdämmerung, LPO, Jurowski, RFH review - outside looking...

Four years embracing pandemic, genocide and rapid environmental degradation predicted by Wagner’s grand myth have passed before the Southbank Br...