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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

Troy: Fall of a City, BBC One review - soapification of the Trojan War

Sunday, 18 February 2018 Read more...

Collateral, BBC Two review - a lecture or a drama?

Thursday, 15 February 2018 Read more...

The Shape of Water review - love in a Cold War climate

Wednesday, 14 February 2018 Read more...

All or Nothing: The Mod Musical, Arts Theatre - plenty of room for ravers

Friday, 09 February 2018 Read more...

Spiral, Series 6 Finale, BBC Four review - hot fuzz hit new heights

Sunday, 04 February 2018 Read more...

Gomorrah, Series 3, Sky Atlantic review - there will be blood

Friday, 02 February 2018 Read more...

Strike Back, Series 6 part 2, Sky 1 review - shoot first, talk later

Thursday, 01 February 2018 Read more...

Journey's End review - requiem for the poor bloody infantry

Tuesday, 30 January 2018 Read more...

Hits, Hype and Hustle: An Insider's Guide to the Music Business, BBC Four review - how gigs got big

Saturday, 27 January 2018 Read more...

Britannia, Sky Atlantic review - Druids, sex and sorcery

Friday, 19 January 2018 Read more...

The Commuter review - trouble on the main line

Wednesday, 17 January 2018 Read more...

Hard Sun, BBC One review - cops versus the end of the world

Sunday, 07 January 2018 Read more...

Hostiles review – powerful but preachy Frontier fable

Friday, 05 January 2018 Read more...

Albums of the Year 2017: Robert Plant - Carry Fire

Sunday, 31 December 2017 Read more...

Spiral, Series 6, BBC Four review - grime pays in the City of Light

Sunday, 31 December 2017 Read more...

Molly's Game review - Jessica Chastain gets her poker face on

Tuesday, 26 December 2017 Read more...

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With Brad Pitt’s much-trumpeted F1 movie about to screech noisily into the multiplexes, it’s not a bad time to be reminded of the career of one of...

Classical CDs: Bells, whistles and bowing techniques

 

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Album: Yungblud – Idols

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

So, what musical...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St Marti...

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...