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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

Flight Risk review - the sky's the limit for Michelle Dockery and Mark Wahlberg

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Prime Target, Apple TV+ review - the appliance of science

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Out There, ITV1 review - drugs and thugs disfigure the Welsh landscape

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A Complete Unknown review - how does it feel?

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What's the Matter with Tony Slattery?, BBC Two review - absorbing but troubling search for answers

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American Primeval, Netflix review - nightmare on the Wild Frontier

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Maria review - Pablo Larraín's haunting portrait of an opera legend

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A Real Pain review - Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin take a Holocaust tour of Poland

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Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Sky Atlantic review - Colin Firth stars in gruelling dramatisation of the 1988 terror attack

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SAS Rogue Heroes, Series 2, BBC One review - Paddy Mayne's renegade warriors invade Italy

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All Creatures Great and Small, Christmas Special, Channel 5 review - Mrs Hall steps into the spotlight

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Death in Paradise Christmas Special, BBC One review - who killed Santa Claus?

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Queer review - Daniel Craig meets William Burroughs

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Black Doves, Netflix review - Keira Knightley and Ben Whishaw battle against the implausible

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Nightbitch review - Mother's life as a dog

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Conclave review - secrets and lies in the Vatican's inner sanctum

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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...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

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

Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply...

Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the Scottish small...

Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story o...

The corset is an unlikely star of the latest Lynn Nottage play to arrive at the...

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Andreas Dresen directs socially engaged realist films that invariably relay personal and political messages; the result can be tough but is...

Hercules, Theatre Royal Drury Lane review - new Disney stage...

Many years ago, reviewing pantomime for the first time, I recall looking around in the stalls. My brain was saying, “This is...