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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

McLaren review - illuminating portrait of New Zealand's racing ace

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10 Questions for film director Roger Donaldson – 'motor racing in the 1960s was incredibly dangerous'

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Kat and Alfie: Redwater, BBC One review – 'EastEnders' spinoff suffers from no fixed identity

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King Charles III, BBC Two review - royal crisis makes thrilling drama

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

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

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

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

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The Promise review - genocide reduced to melodrama

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

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Clash review - 'a nation in crisis'

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Homeland review - 'worryingly prescient'

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Guerrilla review – 'it takes itself fantastically seriously'

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

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

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

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