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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

Those Who Wish Me Dead review - Angelina Jolie battles baddies and blazes in Montana

Friday, 21 May 2021 Read more...

We Are Lady Parts, Channel 4 review - female Muslim punk band rocks the house

Friday, 21 May 2021 Read more...

Army of the Dead review - triumphant return to zombieland by director Zack Snyder

Wednesday, 19 May 2021 Read more...

The Underground Railroad, Amazon Prime review - a horrifying ride through America's heart of darkness

Monday, 17 May 2021 Read more...

The Woman in the Window review - hitching a ride with Hitch

Saturday, 15 May 2021 Read more...

Domina, Sky Atlantic review - a little less conversation, a little more action required

Saturday, 15 May 2021 Read more...

Danny Boy, BBC Two review - when law and war collide

Thursday, 13 May 2021 Read more...

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Déjà Vu 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Tuesday, 11 May 2021 Read more...

Line of Duty, Series 6 Finale, BBC One review - crafty ending leaves wriggle room for a sequel

Monday, 03 May 2021 Read more...

Intergalactic, Sky One review - lovely CGI, shame about the drama

Saturday, 01 May 2021 Read more...

Viewpoint, ITV review - the perils of the peeping tom police

Wednesday, 28 April 2021 Read more...

Line of Duty, Series 6, Episode 6, BBC One review - the pace accelerates for AC-12's final countdown

Monday, 26 April 2021 Read more...

Mare of Easttown, Sky Atlantic review - Kate Winslet shines in finely-drawn Pennsylvania mystery

Tuesday, 20 April 2021 Read more...

Promising Young Woman, Sky Cinema review - Emerald Fennell's brilliant directorial debut

Monday, 19 April 2021 Read more...

Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Duty, BBC Two review - when crime paid handsomely for corrupt officers

Thursday, 15 April 2021 Read more...

Too Close, ITV review - capable cast struggles with unrewarding material

Wednesday, 14 April 2021 Read more...

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28 Years Later review - an unsentimental, undead education

The 23 years since 28 Days Later and especially those since Danny Boyle’s soulful encapsulation of Britain’s best spirit at the 2012...

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Two concerts in the BBC Philharmonic’s series in their own studio form the climax of studies at the Royal Northern College of Music for a small...

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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...