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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

Mission: Impossible - Fallout review - brilliant summer blockbuster

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Who Is America?, Channel 4 review - sudden return of Sacha Baron Cohen

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Unforgotten, Series 3, ITV review - death on the M1

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Sharp Objects, Sky Atlantic review - Amy Adams battles her demons

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Whitney review - superstar's dismal demise revisited

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Eric Clapton: A Life in 12 Bars, BBC Two review - blues, booze and dues

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Adrift review - lost at sea

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado review - violent, explosive and nihilistic thriller

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Reporting Trump's First Year: the Fourth Estate, BBC Two review - all hands on deck at the Gray Lady

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Ocean's 8 review – half-cocked caper

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Hidden, BBC Four review - a death in Snowdonia

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom review - dinosaurs in peril

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Our Girl, Series 4, BBC One review - 2 Section versus Boko Haram

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King Lear, BBC Two review - modernised TV adaptation is a mixed blessing

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The Rolling Stones, London Stadium review - only rock'n'roll?

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A Very English Scandal, BBC One review - making a drama out of a crisis

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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...

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

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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...