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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

Don't Forget the Driver, BBC Two review - trying to beat the Bognor blues

Wednesday, 10 April 2019 Read more...

Pet Sematary review - spine-jolting shocks, but a disappointing ending

Saturday, 06 April 2019 Read more...

Line of Duty, Series 5, BBC One review - already it's dark, dirty and dangerous

Monday, 01 April 2019 Read more...

Road to Brexit, BBC Two review - a rotten historian for a rotten parliament

Wednesday, 27 March 2019 Read more...

Victoria, Series 3, ITV review - can Her Maj cope with the Age of Revolution?

Monday, 25 March 2019 Read more...

The White Crow review - gripping depiction of the brilliance of Nureyev

Thursday, 21 March 2019 Read more...

Shetland, Series 5 Finale, BBC One review - Sicario-on-Sea?

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Read more...

Triple Frontier, Netflix review - war-on-drugs thriller suffers identity crisis

Friday, 15 March 2019 Read more...

Cheat, ITV review - fear and loathing in academia

Tuesday, 12 March 2019 Read more...

Leaving Neverland: Michael Jackson and Me, Channel 4 review - sordid revelations from the court of the King of Pop

Thursday, 07 March 2019 Read more...

Serenity review - a game of two ill-fitting halves

Saturday, 02 March 2019 Read more...

Strike Back: Silent War, Sky 1 review - bullets, bodies, baddies and a stolen atom bomb

Friday, 01 March 2019 Read more...

The Aftermath review - it looks great but it lacks bite

Thursday, 28 February 2019 Read more...

This Time with Alan Partridge, BBC One review - a man out of time?

Tuesday, 26 February 2019 Read more...

Only Fools and Horses, Theatre Royal Haymarket review - rollicking remake of much-loved TV sitcom

Wednesday, 20 February 2019 Read more...

Traitors, Channel 4 review - Cold War thriller fails to reach room temperature

Monday, 18 February 2019 Read more...

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The auditorium and arena were packed – and the stage even more so, bursting at the seams with players and singers: the perfect set-up for a First...

Album: Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars - Dreams

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Harvest review - blood, barley and adaptation

Lovers of a particular novel, when it’s adapted as a movie, often want book and movie to fit together as a hand in a glove. You want it to be like...

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Album: Alex Warren - You'll Be Alright, Kid

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That Bastard, Puccini!, Park Theatre review - inventive comi...

Before Luigi Illica wrote the libretti for Puccini’s Tosca and Madama Butterfly, he had joined the composer as the...