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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

Alien: Covenant review - we've seen most of this before

Thursday, 11 May 2017 Read more...

Pink Floyd: Their Mortal Remains, V&A review – from innocence to experience and beyond

Wednesday, 10 May 2017 Read more...

Britain's Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story review - 'power, politics and national identity'

Thursday, 04 May 2017 Read more...

Brian Johnson's A Life on the Road review – ripping yarns of rock'n'roll

Saturday, 29 April 2017 Read more...

The Promise review - genocide reduced to melodrama

Friday, 28 April 2017 Read more...

Little Boy Blue review – 'the sum of all fears'

Tuesday, 25 April 2017 Read more...

Clash review - 'a nation in crisis'

Wednesday, 19 April 2017 Read more...

Homeland review - 'worryingly prescient'

Monday, 17 April 2017 Read more...

Guerrilla review – 'it takes itself fantastically seriously'

Friday, 14 April 2017 Read more...

The Sense of an Ending review – an enigmatic journey through the past

Thursday, 13 April 2017 Read more...

The Last Kingdom - 'one of the very best things on television'

Friday, 07 April 2017 Read more...

Sunday Book: Min Kym - Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Sunday, 02 April 2017 Read more...

Ghost in the Shell review - 'a mind-bending futuristic dystopia'

Wednesday, 29 March 2017 Read more...

Line of Duty, Series 4 review – 'the tension rocketed to brain-jangling red alert'

Monday, 27 March 2017 Read more...

Life review - 'knuckle-gnawing moments of panic'

Thursday, 23 March 2017 Read more...

SS–GB, Series Finale, BBC One

Monday, 20 March 2017 Read more...

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Bookish, U&Alibi review - sleuthing and skulduggery in a...

As a sometime writer of Poirot, Sherlock and Christmas ghost stories,...

Album: Spafford Campbell - Tomorrow Held

Guitarist Louis Campbell and fiddle player Owen Spafford started playing together as teenagers in the National Youth Folk Ensemble when Sam...

The Estate, National Theatre review - hugely entertaining, b...

The first rule for brown people, says the main character – played by BAFTA-winner Adeel Akhtar – in this highly entertaining dramedy, is not to...

Music Reissues Weekly: Mike Taylor - Pendulum, Trio

Wheels of Fire was Cream’s third album. Issued in the US in June 1968 and in the UK two months later, it was a double LP. One record was...

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire review - a mysterious silence

A glamorous black woman sits in a Forties bar under a Vichy cop’s gaze, cigarette tilted at an angle, till two male companions join her in...

Youssou N'Dour and Super Étoile de Dakar, Roundhouse re...

There is a freshness about a show by Youssou N’Dour that never seems to lose its glow. He still has one of the great voices of Africa, a versatile...

BBC Proms: First Night, Batiashvili, BBCSO, Oramo review - g...

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

What a great album – and what a great story to lift the heart in these fetid times. A story that crosses oceans and decades and brings together a...

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...