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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

The Day We Walked on the Moon, ITV review - it was 50 years ago to the day

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 Read more...

Inside the Social Network: Facebook's Difficult Year, BBC Two review - how big can it get?

Wednesday, 17 July 2019 Read more...

Charles I: Downfall of a King, BBC Four review - beheaded monarch upstaged by exotic presenter

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 Read more...

Cyclists: Scourge of the Streets?, Channel 5 review - can we make the roads a safer place?

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 Read more...

Dark Money, BBC One review - powerful idea poorly executed

Tuesday, 09 July 2019 Read more...

Inside the Bank of England, BBC Two review - economical with the actualité

Wednesday, 03 July 2019 Read more...

Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure, ITV review - national treasure meets natural wonders

Wednesday, 03 July 2019 Read more...

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...

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Yungblud has declared his fourth album, Idols, to be a “a project with no limitations”. This is quite a claim.

So, what musical...

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In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of...

Patrick Wolf, Rough Trade East review - the Kent-based bard...

After the evening’s second song “The Last of England,” Patrick Wolf cautions “I’ve got nothing left to say.” During the shows leading up to this...

4.48 Psychosis, Royal Court review - powerful but déjà vu

Sarah Kane is the most celebrated new writer of the 1990s. Her work is provocative and innovative. So it seems oddly unimaginative to mark the...

The Buccaneers, Apple TV+, Season 2 review - American advent...

Edith Wharton hadn’t finished her novel, The Buccaneers, when she died in 1937, but it was completed in 1993 by Marion Mainwaring. The...

Red Path review - the dead know everything

Here’s a film you might not feel like seeing. After all, Red Path tells of a 14-year-old in Tunisia who is forced to carry home the...

Album: Loyle Carner - Hopefully!

Loyle Carner’s Hopefully! is a luminous, deeply personal exploration of fatherhood, identity, and artistic reinvention, marking the south...