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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

Diana, Our Mother: Her Life and Legacy, ITV review – intimate revelations from William and Harry

Tuesday, 25 July 2017 Read more...

Fearless, Series Finale, ITV review - big build-up to an anticlimax

Tuesday, 18 July 2017 Read more...

Game of Thrones, Series 7, Sky Atlantic review – slow, but it's just the beginning

Tuesday, 18 July 2017 Read more...

War for the Planet of the Apes review – long on budget, short on ideas

Tuesday, 11 July 2017 Read more...

Steve Winwood, Eventim Apollo review - multi-talented performer redesigns his back catalogue

Thursday, 06 July 2017 Read more...

Spider-Man: Homecoming review - fresh, funny version of the arachnid avenger

Wednesday, 05 July 2017 Read more...

Melvyn Bragg on TV, BBC Two review – too many talking heads, too little action

Sunday, 02 July 2017 Read more...

Sudan: The Last of the Rhinos, BBC Two review - requiem for disappearing wildlife

Thursday, 29 June 2017 Read more...

Bat Out of Hell, Coliseum review - Jim Steinman's rockin' dystopia hits the stage

Wednesday, 21 June 2017 Read more...

Chance, Universal review – Hugh Laurie is reborn as a film-noir shrink

Wednesday, 21 June 2017 Read more...

Ripper Street, BBC Two, Series 5 review – apocalypse looms in Victorian Whitechapel

Tuesday, 20 June 2017 Read more...

Whitney: Can I Be Me review - tragic account of superstar who fell to earth

Wednesday, 14 June 2017 Read more...

Poldark, Series 3, BBC One review - tempestuous passions and pantomime villains ride again

Monday, 12 June 2017 Read more...

Summer of Love: How Hippies Changed the World review - the weird and wonderful roots of the Sixties counterculture

Saturday, 10 June 2017 Read more...

The Mummy review – please don't let them make a sequel

Friday, 09 June 2017 Read more...

Ackley Bridge, Channel 4 review – can the town's new academy bring racial and social harmony?

Thursday, 08 June 2017 Read more...

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