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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

Spotlight on The Troubles: A Secret History, BBC Four review - Ulster's bitter sectarian war revisited

Wednesday, 11 September 2019 Read more...

Power, politics and Peaky Blinders - the Shelby family return for Series 5

Thursday, 22 August 2019 Read more...

I Am Hannah, Channel 4 review - last in trilogy leaves us dangling

Wednesday, 07 August 2019 Read more...

Euphoria, Sky Atlantic review - teenage nervous breakdown

Wednesday, 07 August 2019 Read more...

Animals review - who decides when the party's over?

Friday, 02 August 2019 Read more...

The Chef's Brigade, BBC Two review - you're in the army now

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 Read more...

Manifest, Sky 1 review - late arrival causes cosmic upheaval

Wednesday, 31 July 2019 Read more...

Keeping Faith, Series 2, BBC One review - family misfortunes

Wednesday, 24 July 2019 Read more...

I Am Nicola, Channel 4 review - not really love, actually

Wednesday, 24 July 2019 Read more...

Pavarotti review - enjoyable but superficial survey of a superstar

Friday, 19 July 2019 Read more...

The Day We Walked on the Moon, ITV review - it was 50 years ago to the day

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 Read more...

Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year, BBC Two review - how big can it get?

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 Read more...

Charles I: Downfall of a King, BBC Four review - beheaded monarch upstaged by exotic presenter

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 Read more...

Cyclists: Scourge of the Streets?, Channel 5 review - can we make the roads a safer place?

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 Read more...

Dark Money, BBC One review - powerful idea poorly executed

Tuesday, 09 July 2019 Read more...

Inside the Bank of England, BBC Two review - economical with the actualité

Wednesday, 03 July 2019 Read more...

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The Naked Gun review - farce, slapstick and crass stupidity

The original Naked Gun series (spun off from the Police Squad! TV show) brought reliable belly-laughs to the Eighties and...

Album: Reneé Rapp - Bite Me

The stage musical update of Mean Girls, and the film adaptation, pushed Reneé Rapp into the public eye. She played queen bitch Regina...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, BBC One review - love, de...

Readers of Richard Flanagan’s Booker-winning novel will be familiar with its themes of war, extreme suffering, ageing, memory, fidelity and...

BBC Proms: Kholodenko, BBCNOW, Otaka review - exhilarating L...

According to the programme, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra is heard somewhere around the world every other week. In which case I’ve...

The Daughter of Time, Charing Cross Theatre review - unfocus...

Following confirmation that he was the owner of the bones found in a Leicester car park in 2012, Richard III has never been a hotter,...

theartsdesk Q&A: actor Lars Eidinger on 'Dying...

To get Lars Eidinger "right", one must take him cloven hoof and all. He's intense, unconventional, and driven – but by what, exactly?...

Album: Cian Ducrot - Little Dreaming

Cian Ducrot cut his teeth on a blend of intimate singer-songwriter balladry and lowkey alt-pop, most of his debut album Victory ...

Evita, London Palladium review - even more thrilling the sec...

Would Jamie Lloyd's mind-bending revival of Evita win through twice in four weeks, I wondered to myself, paraphrasing a Tim Rice lyric...

Maiden Voyage, Southwark Playhouse review - new musical runs...

As the nation basks in the reflected glory of The Lionesses' Euro25 victory, it could hardly be more timely for the Southwark...