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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

Yesterday review - Beatlemania in a parallel universe

Thursday, 27 June 2019 Read more...

The Planets, Series Finale, BBC Two review - ice cold on Neptune

Wednesday, 26 June 2019 Read more...

Drag SOS, Channel 4 review - absolutely fabulous

Wednesday, 26 June 2019 Read more...

Beecham House, ITV review - a cartoon version of 18th century India

Monday, 24 June 2019 Read more...

Years and Years, Series Finale, BBC One review - soggy ending fails to inspire

Wednesday, 19 June 2019 Read more...

Ackley Bridge, Series 3, Channel 4 review - we gotta get out of this place

Wednesday, 19 June 2019 Read more...

Sometimes Always Never review - small but perfectly crafted

Thursday, 13 June 2019 Read more...

What's My Name: Muhammad Ali, Sky Atlantic review - why they called him The Greatest

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 Read more...

Years and Years, Episode 5, BBC One review - darker and darker

Wednesday, 12 June 2019 Read more...

Big Little Lies, Series 2, Sky Atlantic review - supercharged start for new season

Tuesday, 11 June 2019 Read more...

Gloria Bell review - dancing away the heartache

Thursday, 06 June 2019 Read more...

63 Up, ITV review - age is beginning to wither them

Wednesday, 05 June 2019 Read more...

Her Majesty's Cavalry, ITV review - my kingdom for a horse

Wednesday, 05 June 2019 Read more...

Sundance London 2019 review - psychotic maniacs and old-fashioned weepies

Sunday, 02 June 2019 Read more...

Thunder Road review - potent and poignant debut feature

Thursday, 30 May 2019 Read more...

Chernobyl, Episode 4, Sky Atlantic review - life in the death zone

Tuesday, 28 May 2019 Read more...

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Emotional truth backed up by musical sophistication is what saves Puccini’s drama about a geisha deserted by an American officer from mawkishness...

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Three of last year’s finest singles were by Luvcat, a classy-but-naughty Eartha Kitt-style bad girl steeped in burlesque-rock’n’roll spirit. In...

theartsdesk at Wexford Festival Opera 2025 - two strong prod...

A drawback of choosing relatively or very obscure operas, as they've been mostly doing in Wexford Festival since 1951, is that the audiences...

Bach's B minor Mass, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Whelan, C...

The greatest procession of mass movements ever composed merits the best line-up of soloists, both vocal and instrumental, as well as the perfect...

Kaploukhii, Greenwich Chamber Orchestra, Cutts, St James...

To St James’s Piccadilly to hear the young pianist Misha Kaploukhii give an impressive performance of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto,...

Music Reissues Weekly: Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill

Issued in September 1974, Hall of the Mountain Grill was Hawkwind’s fifth LP. The follow-up to 1973’s live double album...

The Line of Beauty, Almeida Theatre review - the 80s revisit...

Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatre premiere...