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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

Enemy of the People, Channel 4 review - murder and corruption in the age of digital media

Wednesday, 09 August 2023 Read more...

Wolf, BBC One review - a load of old...

Wednesday, 02 August 2023 Read more...

Special Ops: Lioness, Paramount+ review - high-octane female cast conducts war on terror

Wednesday, 26 July 2023 Read more...

Oppenheimer review - epic and enthralling study of 'the father of the atomic bomb'

Thursday, 20 July 2023 Read more...

World on Fire, Series 2, BBC One - return of Peter Bowker's panoramic view of World War Two

Tuesday, 18 July 2023 Read more...

Disturbing Disappearances, More4 review - headstrong 'tec tackles Pied Piper mystery

Saturday, 15 July 2023 Read more...

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, BST Hyde Park review - Saturday in the park with Bruce

Sunday, 09 July 2023 Read more...

Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Season 4, Prime Video review - final outing for John Krasinski's CIA hero

Tuesday, 04 July 2023 Read more...

Hijack, Apple TV+ review - trapped at 40,000 feet with a bunch of armed thugs

Thursday, 29 June 2023 Read more...

Spiral of Lies, Channel 4 review - bodies, fibs and bad karma in Biarritz

Tuesday, 27 June 2023 Read more...

Turn of the Tide, Netflix review - cocaine madness comes to the Azores

Saturday, 24 June 2023 Read more...

No Hard Feelings review - nothing about this queasy comedy feels quite right

Thursday, 22 June 2023 Read more...

Best Interests, BBC One review - a family feels the unbearable strain of terminal illness

Tuesday, 13 June 2023 Read more...

Chevalier review - a less than extraordinary film about an extraordinary man

Friday, 09 June 2023 Read more...

Hypnotic review - a riotously enjoyable thriller

Sunday, 28 May 2023 Read more...

Inland review - a cracked mosaic of memories, impressions and lurking anxiety

Wednesday, 24 May 2023 Read more...

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Album: Saint Etienne - International

International is Saint Etienne’s 13th album. It is their last. According to the promotional material, it was written while recording...

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Every year, the Royal Albert Hall proves complicit in the magic of the quietest utterances if, as Barenboim put it, you let the audience come to...

Blu-ray: The Graduate

Can a film’s classic status expire, or be rescinded? If it can, I’d say The Graduate is a potential candidate.

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BBC Proms: Alexander’s Feast, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Whela...

Many Londoners would already have experienced the musicality incarnate of Peter Whelan and his Irish Baroque Orchestra. A smaller ensemble rocked...

Album: Brad Mehldau - Ride into the Sun

Brad Mehldau’s three trio concerts in the UK in June showed what it is he does so brilliantly. The group (with bassist Felix Moseholm and drummer...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Outer Limits - Just One More Chan...

The Outer Limits were from Leeds. Active over 1965 to 1968, the...